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Buyer's Guide
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In this repository we have included everything you need to source, fabricate, and assembled V4 Miniscope however you choose. The Buyer's Guide below focuses on options available through open-source distribution groups (currently OEPS and LabMaker) for purchasing fully assembled V4 Miniscopes, V4 Assembly Kits, assembled and tested DAQs, and other Miniscope accessories. The vast majority of labs should follow the options discussed in this guide for obtaining and setting up Miniscopes in your lab. If however, you want to procure V4 Miniscope components individually you should follow our Part Procurement guide.
A Note on the Open-Source Nature of the Miniscope Project: With the Miniscope project being an open-source project, any person, group, or company has the option of putting together and selling any part of this system. While this has generally resulted in mostly well put together parts and system for previous Miniscopes released, there is always the risk that some groups/companies will supply less-than-adequate components/systems. We try to work with open-source distribution groups and commercial companies interested in distributing parts of our system to make sure the work/support/systems they provide are up to the standards the neuroscience community expects. In the procurement guide below, we try to list as many avenues as possible of getting high-quality components for Miniscopes. If you know of, or have questions about, other sources of components/systems feel free to ask us about them on the Miniscope Discussion Forum.
This guide is broken up into 3 sections: Miniscope DAQs, Miniscope Assembly Kits and fully assembled Miniscopes, and other Miniscope Accessories. We will provide details and opinions on when is currently available to purchase through online stores.
Note: The Miniscope team has worked closely with Open Ephys Production Site (OEPS) since 2019 to develop a road-map for what we think will be the future of open-source tool development, dissemination, and distribution. Below, we provide all purchasing options currently known to us but if you are interested in supporting the Miniscope project and, more broadly, continued open-source tool development/distribution we highly suggest you consider the OEPS purchasing options.