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Getting Started

Building Digital Homecages

• For Mice

• For Rats

TODO: Starting an Experiment

• For Mice (non-ephys)

• For Mice (with ephys headstages)

• For Rats

How to do daily checks

(https://github.com/BrendonWatsonLab/Digital-Homecage/wiki/How-to-do-daily-checks)

• For Mice (non-ephys)

• For Mice (with ephys headstages)

• For Rats

• TO DO: NOAH Building Rat Boxes(https://github.com/BrendonWatsonLab/Digital-Homecage/wiki/Noah-Building-Rat-Boxes)

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Data Analysis

- Actigraphy

Daily Check Data

• For Mice

• For Rats

- Beambreak Data

Components

- 3mm IR Breambreak

- Acrylic Light Diffuser Panel

- Arduino

- Barrel Jack Breakout - Female

- Barrel Jack Breakout - Male

- Beambreaks

- Behavioral Box Hardware Info Master Diagram

- Buck Converter

- Camera

- Clear Mouse Cage

- Combined Food Assembly 3-d Printed Scaffold

- Exterior Encasement

- Female 3-Pin Connector

- IDC Parallel Cable

- Labjack

-Male 3-pin Connector

-Motor

- Port Beambreak Assembly

- Power Supply

- Running Wheel System (RUNSYS)

- Visible LED Acrylic Housing

- Water Subsystem

- Small Hand Broom for cleaning

- 3-hole & 2-hole Output Solenoids

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- Circuit Panel Assembly

12V Arduino Barrel Jack Wire Assembly

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Software

- HandBrakeBatchBeast

- HomeCageScan

- StreamPix Setup

Designs

- Mouse Behavioral Box Designs

- Rat Behavioral Box Designs

- TODO Most Recent 3D Print Designs

Electrophysiology:

- Custom EIB board for Ephys

- Multidrives for Tetrodes

- TO DO: WIRING SETUP FOR NICOLETTE'S EPHYS BOXES

Troubleshooting:

-All Four dispensers have failed

• -Arduino-Based diagnostic procedure

-Pellet dispensers have failed

-BB_XX are not backing up to Overseer

-Regular/Sucrose Water not dispensing