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Tools & Projects
Here are some handy tools we’ve built along the way to solve common problems in research and teaching. Nothing fancy—just useful utilities that we hope can help others too.
Miro Board Exporter
ActiveExport retrospective data for easy analysis
A tool for exporting Miro retrospective sessions data to easily-analyzable formats, making team reflection and improvement tracking more efficient.
What it does:
- Export retrospective data to CSV/JSON
- Track team improvement metrics over time
- Generate analysis-ready datasets
Course Attendance Analyzer
ActiveAutomated attendance tracking and certificate generation
A tool for converting Zoom session data into attendance reports and automatically generating participation certificates for course participants.
What it does:
- Process Zoom attendance data for courses
- Generate participation certificates automatically
- Track student engagement across sessions
- Produce attendance reports for certification requirements
easyNC NetCDF Toolbox
ActiveSimplified NetCDF file handling in MATLAB
A MATLAB toolbox for reading and manipulating NetCDF files, designed to simplify handling multi-dimensional scientific data with automatic dimension loading and table conversion.
What it does:
- Read NetCDF files into MATLAB structures
- Convert multi-dimensional data to long-format tables
- Analyze climate and oceanographic datasets
- Transform complex scientific data for analysis
ECG Video Game
ActiveInteractive biofeedback gaming for neuroscience education
A two-player game that uses real-time ECG signals to control gameplay, making heart physiology and biofeedback concepts tangible and engaging for high school students.
What it does:
- High school neuroscience outreach and education
- Demonstrating biofeedback and physiological monitoring
- Teaching ECG signal acquisition and processing
- Interactive hardware-software integration projects
Git Commit Relay Race
ActiveGamified Git collaboration through live team competition
An interactive workshop scoreboard that tracks real-time Git commits as teams race to build Streamlit dashboards, making version control collaboration engaging and practical.
What it does:
- Large workshop and retreat team-building activities
- Teaching collaborative Git workflows
- Practice agile development and version control
- Interactive coding competitions and hackathons
Larvaworld
External Project ActiveAgent-based modeling and simulation platform for Drosophila larva behavior
A comprehensive Python package for modeling, simulating and analyzing insect larva behavior with a focus on Drosophila melanogaster. Provides tools for importing experimental datasets, combining behavior-based models in a modular Behavioral Architecture, visualizing simulations and generating diagrams and videos.
What it does:
- Simulate larval foraging and navigation behavior
- Integrated energetics model coupled to behavior
- Analyze real larval tracking data
- Model neural circuits controlling behavior
- Compare experimental and simulated datasets
Teaching Materials Portal
ActiveSearchable, reusable course materials
A website where our teaching materials are easily browsable and reusable by instructors worldwide, promoting open science education and knowledge sharing.
What it does:
- Browse course materials by topic or technology
- Download and adapt materials for your own courses
- Search for specific teaching resources
- Contribute materials back to the community
