Their system is a great example of how you can add your own custom modules to OmniTrak and save yourself having to build an entire cage+controller+dispensers setup. We happily share specifications, software, and CAD files to help you build your own modules to fit OmniTrak standardized ports.

But maybe you have ideas (hobbies, even!) outside the lab, and there’s something wild you’ve been wanting to build, but don’t know quite how to get started. Send us a note at @protonaut.design (or at Vulintus, too), and maybe we can help build it as good as it looks in your imagination!

And don’t worry! Vulintus will still be making all the #MotoTrak, #OmniTrak, #SensiTrak, and #HabiTrak systems that your lab might want, and we’re stilling developing many new ideas to accelerate your biomedical research!

@protonaut.design offers all the same design services and custom fabrication that Vulintus does, only with less of a focus strictly on biomedical research.

So if red work lights disturb our animals’ internal clocks, how can we work with them during their dark phase? Vulintus is prototyping goggles for working under infrared lights (which the Spencer Lab showed the rats and mice couldn’t detect). Not so stylish yet, but we're working on it!

This was a super fun collaboration! To test whether their rats could consciously detect red lights in the far red band, the Spencer Lab asked us to help them create a Go/NoGo nosepoke task in which rats would be rewarded for reacting to a quick flash of...lasers! Diffused, scattered lasers, that is.

Don't think we've forgotten about you, too, Bug Nerds! We've had a lot of you asking for much smaller spherical treadmills, and we're going to have something to show you very soon!

Like most of our products, we built this Social Choice Module because a lab asked if we could build them a system similar to one they'd seen in an article they were inspired by! In this case the article was this excellent study from Isaac et al, 2024: