Abstract
We present ethoscopes, machines for high-throughput ethomics in Drosophila and other animals. Ethoscopes present four unique features: they provide a software and hardware solution that is reproducible and easily scalable; they perform not just real-time tracking, but faithful real-time profiling of behaviour using a supervised machine learning algorithm; they can stimulate flies in a feedback-loop mode; they are highly customisable and open source. Ethoscopes can be easily built using 3D printing technology and they rely on Raspberry Pi and Arduino to provide affordable and flexible hardware.
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