Introducing Protonaut Design!
Vulintus is launching a new off-shoot small-scale manufacturing service called Protonaut Design. Protonaut offers all the same design services and custom fabrication that Vulintus does, only with less of a focus strictly on biomedical research.
What we're working on this week: Infrared Vivarium Goggles
A great article came out this week from Bob Spencer’s Lab at the University of Colorado, and Vulintus got to help with it! They showed that laboratory rats and mice are sensitive to, and can consciously detect, far-red wavelengths of light that researchers have long assumed they were essentially blind to. So if we can use red work lights, maybe we can work in infrared?
What we're working on this week: Spherical Treadmill updates
We just wrapped up new software updates for our Spherical Treadmill recording software, focused on real-time displays of the treadmill ball rotation and the animal’s current orientation in virtual space. Stay tuned for some new sphere-size options, too!
What we're working on this week: Pellet Dispenser redesign
Vulintus pellet dispensers have been reliably whirring away in labs all over the world, unchanged for 10+ years, and it’s time for an upgrade. New features on our redesign for 2025: an OLED display to show feeding counts, quieter motor movements, USB connectivity, and more!