Pi USB Cam: A Simple and Affordable DIY Solution That Enables High-Quality, High-Throughput Video Capture for Behavioral Neuroscience Research.

ABSTRACT: Video recording is essential for behavioral neuroscience research, but the majority of available systems suffer from poor cost-to-functionality ratio. Commercial options frequently come at high financial cost that prohibits scalability and throughput, whereas DIY solutions often require significant expertise and time investment unaffordable to many researchers. To address this, we combined a low-cost Raspberry Pi microcomputer, DIY electronics peripherals, freely available open-source firmware, and custom 3D-printed casings to create Pi USB Cam, a simple yet powerful and highly versatile video recording solution. Pi USB Cam is constructed using affordable and widely available components and requires no expertise to build and implement. The result is a system that functions as a plug-and-pl

SUBMITTER: Hou S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9522465 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature