GUI for the StimJim Open Source electrophysiology stimulator
The GUI offers two modes:
In "Simple Mode", a rising pulse on TRIG0 triggers the output of a train of stimuli on OUT0, while a rising pulse on TRIG1 triggers OUT1. You can adjust the number and frequency of the output, as well as its intensity and duration of the pulses.
Checking the "bipolar checkbox" creates a bipolar pulse such as each stimulus is immediately followed by a stimulus of opposite amplitude. Both pulses have equal duration and their combined duration is equal to the pulse duration shown in the corresponding box.
Amplitudes can be expressed in V or A (depending on the chosen output mode), or can be expressed relative to a "threshold"
value. When the threshold amplitude as been measured, click on the threshold button, the value of the threshold amplitude
now appear next to the button, and the pulse amplitude is expressed as a multiple of the threshold value (e.g. If the
threshold were 200mV, 1.5 xT would correspond to a pulse 300 mV in amplitude)
In "Full Mode", all the settings can be freely adjusted as described in the StimJim Documentation
- Create a python environment using the
requirements.txtfile
- Activate the environment
- Launch the GUI:
python StimJimGUI.pyThe software attempts to detect the serial port automatically, but you can also specify the port to use using the--portcommand line argument
Other command line arguments:
usage: StimJimGUI [-h] [-p PORT] [-l LOG] [-v]
This software provides a graphical user interface for controlling a StimJim, an open source electrophysiology stimulator for physiology and behavior
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-p PORT, --port PORT the serial port used to communicate with the StimJim. If not provided, then the software will try to find the port automatically, and/or offer a choice of possible ports
-l LOG, --log LOG save the log file to file FILENAME
-v, --verbose increase verbosity of output (can be repeated to increase verbosity further)scientific_spinbox.py is from pyqt-labutils
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