Thomas Akam is a neuroscientist at the Oxford University Department of Experimental Psychology. He is the lead developer of the @pyControl and @pyPhotometry open source projects. His work links computational accounts of flexible behaviour with large-scale behavioural experiments and neural recording and manipulation approaches, including silicon-probe electrophysiology, fiber photometry, and optogenetics. In this context, pyControl is not merely an experiment-control package, but part of a broader effort to make complex behavioural neuroscience more scalable, transparent, and reproducible.
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Measure Wheel Position And Velocity
Description
Part of the pyControl behavioural experimental system
The adapter board connects an Avago HEDM-55xx series rotary encoder (datasheet) with a pyControl behaviour port, to measure the velocity or position of a running wheel, treadmill, disk etc . The rotary encoder itself is not included as they come in a variety of different models suitable for different applications, differentiated by shaft diameter and resolution. See more