Open Source Instruments, Inc.
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135 Beaver Street, Suite 207 Waltham, MA 02452, USA President: Kevan Hashemi Contact: info@opensourceinstruments.com |
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135 Beaver Street, Suite 207 Waltham, MA 02452, USA President: Kevan Hashemi Contact: info@opensourceinstruments.com |
Open Source Instruments Inc. (OSI) designs and manufactures instruments for scientific research. Most of our customers work in neuroscience and high energy physics. We provide software to control and read out the instruments we sell. Our software is free and runs on Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Most of our revenue comes from sales to institutions and private companies, but we occasionally receive, grants from the SBIR programs of the NSF, NIH, and DoE.
For neuroscientists, we design and manufacture wireless, implantable sensors and stimulators. Our sensors provide high-fidelity biopotential monitoring and allow the measurement of spreading depolarizations in freely-moving, cohabiting animals. Our implantable stimulators provide radio-controlled electrical and optical stimulation. Our data acquisition software is free and provides automatic event detection and translation into standard data formats.
For high energy physicists, we manufacture opto-mechanical metrology devices. Our Boston CCD Angle Monitor (BCAM) has been deployed in large particle detectors such as ALICE, and accelerators such as HIE-ISOLDE. More BCAMs will be installed in the up-coming PIP-II accelerator. Our Direct Fiber Positioning System (DFPS) is a new product we are developing for astronomers in collaboration with Texas A&M Univeristy, and with funding from the NSF.
Sub-Cutaneous Transmitter (SCT): Telemetry devices for implantation in small animals. Many configuration options: mass 1.6 g to 14 g, low-frequency cut-off 0.0 Hz (DC) to 20 Hz, high-frequency cut-off 20 Hz to 640 Hz, input dynamic range 30 mV to 300 mV, 1 to 4 channels, lead thickness 0.5-0.7 mm, lead length 20-260 mm, depth or surface electrodes. Configuration-dependent operating life 5 to 500 days.
Head-Mounting Transmitter (HMT): A biopotential sensor that mounts on the head of a small animal by means of a miniature connector, compatible with our subcutaneous transmitter (SCT) system.
Electrode Interface Fixture (EIF): A connector with leads and electrodes designed to be cemented to the head of a small animal and mate with one of our HMTs.
Implantable Stimulator-Transponder (IST): An implantable stimulator designed for long-term experiments requiring intermittent, short-duration stimulation. Provides pulsed, variable-current electrical stimulation with a bipolar electrode, or pulsed optical stimulation with one of our implantable lamps.
Implantable Light-Emitting Diode (ILED): A variety of implantable lamps for use with our Implantable Stimulator-Transponders (ISTs). We have red, green, and blue Surface-Mount Light-Emitting Diodes, and green and blue Fiber-Coupled Light Emitting Diodes.
Implantable Inertial Sensor (IIS): An implantable accelerometer and gyroscope for recording the dynamics of fish swimming or rodents running.
Subcutaneous Depth Electrodes (SDE): Accessories for our imlantable sensors and stimulators, permit recording and stimulus in deeper parts of the brain.
Subcutaneous Leads (SCL): The same flexible, silicone-insulated, fatigue-resistant, corrostion-proof leads we use with our implantable telemetry sensors, but sold separately.
Animal Location Tracker (ALT): A combined receiver, activity monitor, and location tracker in the form of a platform we place beneath a cage full of animals with implanted SCTs.
Telemetry Control Box (TCB): Sixteen-antenna telemetry receiver, location monitor, and command transmitter.
Animal Cage Camera (ACC): A wide-angle, wide depth of field camera that provides compressed video synchronous to ±0.1 s with telemetry recordings. Provides night-day programmable, dimming and brightening white and infrared illumination.
Faraday Enclosures (FE): Faraday cages with internal absorbers designed to block and absorb 902-915 MHz microwaves so as to provide a quiet space for micropower telemetry.
Boston CCD Angle Monitor (BCAM): Survey cameras and point sources for monitoring deformations of large structures, 5-μrad precision, 50-μrad absolute calibration, designed for particle detectors and accelerator alignment. We manufacture all active varieties of BCAM as well stand-alone light sources and long cables.
Wire Position Sensor (WPS): An optical sensor that monitors the position of a stretched line with 5-μm absolute accuracy, designed the alignment of linear accelerators.
Blood Pressure Monitor (BPM): An implantable blood pressure sensor compatible with our telemetry sytem. Connects to a catheter, precision ±0.4 mmHg (50 Pa) at 128 SPS.
Direct Fiber Positioning System (DFPS): A telescope-mounting fiber positioner for astronomical spectrography. Piezeo-electric tubes packed on a five-millimeter pitch place the tips of optical fibers on the images of celstial objects.
Contactless Position Measurement System (CPMS): An optical system for measuring the position and orientation of highly-reflecting metallic objects. Custom-built instruments with optional motorized stages.
LWDAQ User Manual: User manual for our data-acquisition software.
LWDAQ Command Reference: Command reference for building LWDAQ software tools.
Download Page: List download links for installation from zip archives.
Software Repository: GitHub repository of software and firmware.
LWDAQ Specification: Detailed presentation of our data acquisition system hardware.
Price List: Price list for OSI products and services.
Product Warranty: Warranty against manufacturing defect.
Intellectual Copyright: The GPL 3.0 license under which all our company-owned work is issued.
Serial Numbers: Database of devices with metallized serial numbers.
Customer Testimonials: Price list for OSI products and services.
Related Publications: Papers presenting our own work and work done with the help of our instruments.
Electronic Assemblies: List of electronic assemblies designed and built at OSI.
BNDHEP: Archive of work done by OSI employees at Brandeis University.
Calibration Constants: Databases of device calibration constants.
Setup Instructions: Catalog of instructions for setting up our instruments.
Customer Forum: On-line support forum for questions about OSI hardware and software.
Neuroscience Mailing List: Announcements on neuroscience topics, neuroscience customers only.