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Getting Started

Building Digital Homecages

• For Mice

• For Rats

• Terminology and Nomenclature

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

Box Encasement

Power System

- Light Power

- Arduino & Motorshield

Nourishment System

- Water BeamBreak System

- Food BeamBreak System

Movement System

- Running Wheel System

Recording System

- Beambreak Data

- Running Wheel 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

-CB15 Terminal

- Circuit Panel Assembly

- Clear Mouse Cage

- Combined Food Assembly 3-d Printed Scaffold

- Exterior Encasement

- Female 3-Pin Connector

- IDC Parallel Cable

- Labjack

-Leur-Lock Connectors

-Male 3-pin Connector

-Motor

-Motorshield Custom Bottom Board

- Photo Interrupter Board

- Port Beambreak Assembly

- Power Supply

-Red Solderable Breadboard Mini

- Running Wheel System (RUNSYS)

-Tygon Tubing

- Visible LED Acrylic Housing

- Water Subsystem

-White Barrel Jack 2-Conductor cable

- 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

-FoodHopperPho

- HandBrakeBatchBeast

- HomeCageScan

- phoBehavioralBoxLabjackController

- StreamPix Setup

- RShiny Server

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Systems

3D-Printed Dispenser Subsystem

Arduino Subsystem

Motorshield Subsystem

Software Subsystem

Water Subsystem

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Procedures

- Running Wheel Beambreak

- Motorshield Custom Bottom Board

- Data Collection Assembly

Designs

- Mouse Behavioral Box Designs

- Rat Behavioral Box Designs

- TODO Most Recent 3D Print Designs

Electrophysiology:

- Custom EIB board for Ephys

- Multidrives for Tetrodes

- Tetrode Making

- Implant Wiring

- Intan RHD-USB Board Wiring

- 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