Last month, Bionieuws – a professional newsletter for biologists – ran a feature on 3Dneuro (Letter 7, May 14 2022). Our co-founder Tim can be seen assembling a metal microdrive. In the interview, we covered a few themes, summarized below: How one of our main goals is to make experimentsContinue Reading
This week, we announced on Twitter a preorder round for our first production run of the R2Drive. This microdrive was designed by the Buzsáki lab at NYU, with a focus on sustainability: One can reuse the drive and the silicon probes ♻️, with the main limitation being electrode impedance. WeContinue Reading
Recently, while preparing our next open hardware project, we researched how to best share the design files. Originally we decided to self-host, with the idea of later migrating to GitHub. Instead, we opted for Zenodo, the file sharing platform maintained by CERN and funded by the EU. Zenodo stands outContinue Reading
We are very excited to announce our new collaboration with the Buzsáki lab at NYU. Their new microdrive for silicon probes is: recoverable reusable open-source extends your probe’s life span to 3+ implants (impedance becomes the main issue) and also works with Neuropixels! The metal microdrive and head cap wereContinue Reading
On Nov 17 2020, the journal Nature published a feature about how “How DIY technologies are democratizing science” by Sandeep Ravindran. Key takeaways: “The idea that scientists build their own equipment is as old as science,” (Tom Baden) a reminder that the trend itself is not new, scientists have beenContinue Reading
Here’s another project delayed by COVID-19 that we’re finally starting. Tech Hotel is a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) that focuses on technological advances and knowledge transfer. Two researchers from the Donders Institute – Tansu Celikel and Joanes Grandjean – set out to push the limits of protein imaging. MoreContinue Reading
We believe value creation – be it new software, hardware or methods – comes with a moral obligation to make it available to everyone who needs it. As a commercial company, we create designs that we sell as products (our main thing, microdrives). However, now we also create custom designsContinue Reading
iNavigate is a recently funded project, under the Horizon 2020 MSCA RISE program for a period of four years, starting December 2019. Last week was the kick-off meeting, gathering 40+ partners under the leadership of Tansu Celikel from the Donders Institute. 3Dneuro participates in the systems neuroscience part, and willContinue Reading
In recent years, 3D printing technology has been getting better and cheaper, bringing performance usually accessible only to large industrial companies into the consumer market. New materials are constantly developed, and nowadays it is possible to print objects with high detail in a variety of plastics, metals, and even sandstoneContinue Reading
Since 2016, the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour awards 5000€ to scientists that want to take an idea from the lab to create bigger impact for society. In 2017, the voucher was aimed to support scientists to do market research or start a company based on their research.Continue Reading
