Everything about ZX Microdrive

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ZX MicrodriveA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Robotic multi-probe single-actuator inchworm neural microdriveInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Master your ZX MicrodriveThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Miniature motorized microdrive and commutator system for chronic neural recording in small animalsCited 167 times
5. Go sideways: Rotronics WafadriveA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Sinclair QLA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Miniature motorized microdrive and commutator system for chronic neural recording in small animals

  Michale S Fee, Anthony Leonardo · 2001 · Journal of Neuroscience Methods · 167 citations

• A Large-Scale Semi-Chronic Microdrive Recording System for Non-Human Primates

  Nicholas M. Dotson, Steven J. Hoffman, Baldwin Goodell · 2017 · Neuron · 84 citations

• Semi-Chronic Motorized Microdrive and Control Algorithm for Autonomously Isolating and Maintaining Optimal Extracellular Action Potentials

  Jorge G. Cham, Edward A. Branchaud, Zoran Nenadic · 2005 · Journal of Neurophysiology · 80 citations

• Metal microdrive and head cap system for silicon probe recovery in freely moving rodent

  Mihály Vöröslakos, Peter C Petersen, Balázs Vöröslakos · 2021 · eLife · 77 citations

• Large-Scale Chronically Implantable Precision Motorized Microdrive Array for Freely Behaving Animals

  Jun Yamamoto, Matthew A. Wilson · 2008 · Journal of Neurophysiology · 66 citations

• A microdrive for use with glass or metal microelectrodes in recording from freely-moving rats

  Sam A Deadwyler, Josef Biela, Greg Rose · 1979 · Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology · 52 citations

• A Multi-Channel, Implantable Microdrive System for Use With Sharp, Ultra-Fine “Reitboeck” Microelectrodes

  Harvey A. Swadlow, Yulia Bereshpolova, Tatiana Bezdudnaya · 2005 · Journal of Neurophysiology · 43 citations

• A split microdrive for simultaneous multi-electrode recordings from two brain areas in awake small animals

  Carien S. Lansink, Mattijs Bakker, Wietze Buster · 2007 · Journal of Neuroscience Methods · 43 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Robotic multi-probe single-actuator inchworm neural microdrive

  Richard D Smith, Ilya Kolb, Shinsuke Tanaka · 2022 · eLife · 6 citations

• Using camera-guided electrode microdrive navigation for precise 3D targeting of macaque brain sites

  Max Arwed Crayen, Igor Kagan, Moein Esghaei · 2024 · PLOS ONE · 3 citations

• Three-dimensional-printed headcap with embedded microdrive system for customizable multi-region brain recordings with neural probes

  Jeremiah P. Hartner, Dongyang Yi, Harrison L. Zhu · 2024 · Frontiers in Neuroscience · 2 citations

• Sex-Dependent Effects of Chronic Microdrive Implantation on Acquisition of Trace Eyeblink Conditioning

  Amy P. Rapp, Timothy J. Hark, John M. Power · 2022 · Neurobiology of Learning and Memory · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Master your ZX MicrodriveAndrew Pennell · 1983
• 📕Spectrum mikroasemaAndrew Pennell, Lauri Keränen · 1984
• 📕25 programs for the Sinclair ZX microdrivePaul Stanley · 1984
• Make the Most of Your ZX MicrodriveIan Robertson Sinclair · 1984
• 📕The companion to the Sinclair ZX microdrive and interfacesStuart Cooke · 1984
• Spectrum micro drive bookIan Logan · 1983

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