Designer / artist John Soat (co-founder of Point in Passing) and myself (Brian Isett) recently completed a collection of 45 illustrated poems: Grid Poems Vol. I. Everything from selecting the paper type, cover cloth, and ink selection, to the design and content of the book were entirely up to us. Collaborating on a DIY project at this scale required a lot of decision-making…
Edit 1: Now with .pdf attached. Download it here! Excited to present a 13 page zine I wrote in collaboration with artist/neuroscientist Christine Liu. Christine has created many cool zines, and I was thrilled to work with her to make a zine on one of my favorite topics! The contents of the zine describe what circuit bending is, how to…
Introduction Tubing up the solenoid Solenoid driver circuitry Calibrating volume delivery Arduino code example 1. Introduction In a previous post, I described how to build an infrared lickometer (lick detector), but have yet to describe how to calibrate and deliver water from such a device. (Shout out to Allan-Herman Pool at Caltech for the encouragement to finish the story here!). Edit:…
Introduction Building the lickometer Lickometer circuitry Lickometer in action Part 2: DIY water reward system Introduction Back To Top Graduate school has taken me in some unexpected directions (like teaching a neuroscience course inside a prison), and one of those directions has been the measurement of how and when a mouse licks its tongue. That’s right. We train mice to indicate a decision…