With the sweeping success of the Miniscope family, Daniel Aharoni continues to develop neuro-behavioral recording techniques for freely behaving animals from his UCLA lab. The UCLA miniscope community maintains a WiKi to help disseminate this open source technology to the larger neuroscience community.
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Applications in Behavioral & Neuroscience Research
The MiniCAM is a camera for imaging freely behaving animals in behavioral and neuroscience experiments. The MiniCAM is both powered and communicates over a single 50 ohm coaxial cable minimizing the cabling that needs to run into the experimental environment.
The MiniCAM requires a Miniscope V4 - Data Acquisition System (DAQ) (connected via the 50 ohm coaxial cable) and a host computer (connected over USB3) running the Miniscope Software (or any other third-party application that can stream UVC cameras and can communicate through a Miniscope DAQ).