Blockveranstaltung: Build your own experiments with Arduinos - Details

Blockveranstaltung: Build your own experiments with Arduinos - Details

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Course name Blockveranstaltung: Build your own experiments with Arduinos
Subtitle
Course number 340464
Semester SoSe 2025
Current number of participants 6
maximum number of participants 10
notwendige Teilnehmeranzahl 3
Home institute Göttinger Graduiertenzentrum für Neurowissenschaften, Biophysik und molekulare Biowissenschaften (GGNB)
Courses type Blockveranstaltung in category Teaching
First date Wednesday, 14.05.2025 09:00 - 17:00
Type/Form
Miscellanea The course is taking place in April 2025 (exact date tbd) at the DPZ multifunction building (seminar room 2nd floor or appropriate sized room based on number of registered students).

Rooms and times

No room preference
Wednesday, 14.05.2025 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday, 15.05.2025 09:00 - 17:00
Friday, 16.05.2025 09:00 - 17:00

Fields of study

Comment/Description

In this entry level course, we will look at how open source microcontrollers can be used to control various aspects of biological experiments with an emphasis on neuroscience. The overarching motivation for this is that often during the course of a scientific project the need arises for custom built experimental hardware or to integrate new equipment into existing setups in order to adapt your setup to specific needs. Commercial systems often lag the flexibility that one needs, are difficult to interface with new instruments, and usually are quite expensive. To overcome these obstacles, many labs started to develop their own hard- and software components, which are often shared with the scientific community. Designed by the scientists using them, these open-source tools are elegantly simple, require few electronic components, offer a high degree of flexibility but remain affordable.

The course is aimed at students interested in exploring how microcontrollers might be useful in their own experiments or to better understand how much of scientific equipment is working under the hood but did not yet explore microcontrollers towards these aims.

During the course we will first introduce open-source microcontrollers (e.g. Arduinos) as well as accompanying programming tools. Further, we will explore some basic electronic components and sensors. We will also discuss how to interface custom built equipment with PCs and how to interface various external hardware components with microcontrollers. With this knowledge gathered, participants will finally build their own hard- and software towards performing a small experiment.

The course will take place in October 2022 at[ DPZ multifunction building, seminar room, 2nd floor][1] or in other appropriate sized room based on number of registered students.

The course will be given by Dr. Marcus Jeschke: mjeschke@dpz.eu.



Important:

Once participation has become binding after the signing-out period, cancellation is only possible via the GGNB or GAUSS Office with a) sick certificate, or b) statement by supervisor for scientific reasons. If you do not provide this, you will be excluded from courses for the next 12 months, as well as travel grants and other financial support. No exceptions.

By signing up you agree (1) to carefully check whether you will be able to attend the course (do not register for 2 courses taking place on the same dates - the above mentioned sanctions apply!), (2) to frequently check your student e-mail account, as all information on courses will exclusively be sent to that account; (3) that your name and e-mail address may be forwarded to the course instructor(s) for communication before and after the course; (4) to complete the course evaluation; (5) inform us if you no longer wish to maintain a waiting list position.

[1]: https://lageplan.uni-goettingen.de/?piz=0589&etage=EG

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "GGNB_Methods_2025_SoSe_März_Mai".
You can register and sign out for methods courses in May 2025 from 1-20 March 2025. The slots will be assigned around 25 March 2025.
In exceptional circumstances, you can still sign out until 31 March 2025.
Your participation becomes binding on 1 April 2025. Thereafter, cancellation is only possible via the GGNB Office with a) sick certificate, or b) statement by supervisor (for scientific reasons). If you do not provide this, you will be excluded from courses for the next 12 months, as well as travel grants and other financial support.

By signing up you agree (1) to carefully check whether you will be able to attend the course (do not register for 2 courses taking place on the same dates – the above mentioned sanctions apply!), (2) to frequently check your student e-mail account, as all information on courses will exclusively be sent to that account; (3) that your name and e-mail address may be forwarded to the course instructor(s) for communication before and after the course; (4) to complete the course evaluation; (5) inform us if you no longer wish to maintain a waiting list position; (6) that you only receive credits for attending the entire workshop - you will not get partial credits for part-time attendance.
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • At least one of these conditions must be fulfilled for enrolment:
    • Field of study is Geoscience
    • Field of study is Genes in Development, Disease and Evolution
    • Field of study is Microbiology-Biochemistry
    • Field of study is Theoret Computat Neurosci
    • Field of study is MolecularBiology of Cells
    • Field of study is Environmental Informatics
    • Field of study is BioNutz-MolwissBiotechnol
    • Field of study is IRTG 2172 - PRoTECT
    • Field of study is Chemie
    • Field of study is Biologie
    • Field of study is Systems Neuroscience
    • Field of study is Biologische Diversität und Ökologie
    • Field of study is MolecularPhysi oftheBrain
    • Field of study is PhysicsBiologComplexSyste
    • Field of study is Molekulare Medizin
    • Field of study is Catalysis Sust.Synt.CaSuS
    • Field of study is Emerging Infect. Diseases
    • Field of study is Physik
    • Field of study is Mathematical Sciences
    • Field of study is Computer Science -PCS-
    • Field of study is Geography
    • Field of study is Molekulare Biologie
    • Field of study is Geographie
    • Field of study is Psychologie
    • Field of study is SensoryMotor Neuroscience
    • Field of study is Cardiovascular Science
    • Field of study is Data Science
    • Field of study is Behavior and Cognition
    • Field of study is Neurowissenschaften
    • Field of study is Environmental Informatics
    • Field of study is Genome Science
    • Field of study is Biomol:Struc-Func-Dynamic
  • At least one of these conditions must be fulfilled for enrolment:
    • Degree is Promotion Cotutelle
    • Degree is PromStudiengang Cotutelle
    • Degree is Promotionsstudiengang
    • Degree is PromProgramm Cotutelle
    • Degree is Promotionsprogramm
    • Degree is Promotion m.Abschlussprfg
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats in the affected courses have been assigned at 25.03.2025 on 23:59. Additional seats may be available via a waiting list.
  • The enrolment is possible from 01.03.2025, 00:00 to 20.03.2025, 23:59.
  • Enrolment is allowed for up to 2 courses of the admission set.
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The enrolment is binding, participants cannot unsubscribe themselves.