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Data collection
posted by Paul Hands on June 19, 2013This week I have been working very hard at data collection. Getting the cubes (which we managed to get correctly aligned last week) into a workable experiment program took some debugging but we got it sorted shortly after the Leicester … Continue reading
Psychtoolbox MakeTexture
posted by Jenny on June 6, 2013I was just having a problem with MakeTexture in Psychtoolbox. I like to use PsychImaging(‘AddTask’, ‘General’, ‘NormalizedHighresColorRange’); so that black=0 and white=1, not 255. This makes my code transfer easily to high-bit-depth devices like my DATAPixx. But I was having … Continue reading
OpenGL and NEPG
posted by Paul Hands on June 4, 2013Last weeks debugging finally came to fruition on Friday, with Jenny and myself knocking our brains together for the past 3 days and coming up with the solution to the problem. After altering the viewing frustum using some mathematics and … Continue reading
A week of debugging
posted by Paul Hands on May 24, 2013This week has been a very varied and interesting one. I began by sorting out some acetate sheets for my perspex from which I could draw some stimulus, have them represented on the computer, and then check to see if … Continue reading
Makerspace
posted by Jenny on May 23, 2013Dropped into the Newcastle Makerspace last night and had a friendly welcome. Definitely need to start going to that and getting creative in a geeky way.
Slow and Steady wins the race.
posted by Paul Hands on May 17, 2013I have spent the entire week battling with OpenGL. OpenGL is a graphics program that is supposed to make life easier for you by doing much of the hard calculations to project an object correctly onto the screen. Unfortunately this … Continue reading
A frustrating week
posted by Paul Hands on May 3, 2013This week I have been working with the problem of trying to add some solidity to my wire frame cubes via putting surfaces on them. Which sounds fairly trivial but has taken me the best part of a week to … Continue reading
Picturing science
posted by Jenny on April 26, 2013Our energetic team submitted a number of entries to the Royal Society’s Picturing Science competition.
Kids Kabin in Walker
posted by Paul Hands on April 26, 2013The time certainly does fly when you’re busy! Since my last blog post I have worked hard on the stimuli to get them to work as we hope they would, and have sorted out an occluder (something to block the … Continue reading
Welcome Ronny!
posted by Jenny on April 26, 2013And I’m delighted to announce that Ronny Rosner is the third and final member of the M3 team. Ronny already has considerable experience studying neuronal processing by both behavioural and electrophysiological approaches in flies and locusts, including both extracellular and … Continue reading
Mantid photos
posted by Jenny on April 26, 2013Lisa’s been taking more fab photos of the mantids. They are so cool! Here are some photos showing our experimental set-up.
Graphs are good
posted by Jenny on April 24, 2013All week Lisa’s been a bit gloomy about the behaviour of the mantids. Apparently they have not been cooperating well, doing defensive postures at the screen or even jumping off their perch. But she’s plugged doggedly on with true PhD … Continue reading
Welcome Ghaith!
posted by Jenny on April 20, 2013Ghaith Tarawneh is the second person to accept one of the M3 positions. Ghaith is just writing up his PhD in Microelectronic Circuit Design in the Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering department here at Newcastle. He also has a MSc … Continue reading
Yoshifumi’s visit July 2012
posted by Jenny on April 18, 2013Yoshifumi Yamawaki kindly came to visit us in July 2012 and gave us some tuition in mantid experimental techniques. We didn’t have a lab blog at the time, but I thought I should do a post about it.Here, he shows … Continue reading
Welcome Vivek!
posted by Jenny on April 14, 2013Delighted to welcome Vivek Nityananda as the first of the three Leverhulme-funded research associates working on the “Man, Mantis and Machine” project. Vivek currently holds a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship from the European Union. For this, he’s working on … Continue reading
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