News

Introducing the Tuning Disc
Our newest R2 piece turns the classic orientation tuning curve into a 3D-printed record — playable on a turntable, and able to sharpen your Neuropixels probe.
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Revising our pricing and growth strategy
Open about our pricing: after a supply-chain crisis, we're raising prices ~30% on metal products and ~10% on the rest to grow sustainably.
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3Drive phased out
We're retiring our original 3D-printed microdrive. Its successor, the R2Drive, builds on the detachable-base design.
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Methods preprints!
Two open-source preprints featuring 3Dneuro hardware — the DREAM implant and the TD Drive — are online and in review.
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Press: 3Dneuro featured in Dutch newsletter Bionieuws
Bionieuws, a professional newsletter for biologists, ran a feature on 3Dneuro in its May 2022 issue.
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R2Drive preorder update
Our first aluminium R2Drive run — fifty units at 0.47 g each — sold out within 24 hours. Here's what's next.
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Hosting open hardware files on Zenodo: durable and citable resource sharing
Why we share our open-hardware design files on Zenodo: durable, DOI-citable, and grant-friendly.
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New metal microdrive in collaboration with the Buzsáki lab
A recoverable, reusable, open-source metal microdrive for silicon probes — developed with the Buzsáki lab at NYU.
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Recent Nature feature on DIY science equipment
Nature on how DIY, open-source hardware democratizes science — plus a few things we'd add.
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