GET SPIKELING

Bring Spikeling into your classroom

Purchase assembled and tested Spikeling units for individual use, teaching laboratories and institutional deployment, or work with OSN to plan a course or workshop.

Spikeling remains open hardware and software. You can purchase ready-to-use units from OSN or use the published design files to build and adapt the platform yourself.

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ASSEMBLED SPIKELING V3.2

€299

per unit

Assembled & tested

Ready-to-use Spikeling hardware

Institutional quotations

Formal quotations and purchasing documentation

International orders

Shipping confirmed before order

Open hardware & software

Source files remain independently available

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Assembled & tested

Formal quotations available

International shipping

Open hardware & software

WAYS TO GET SPIKELING

Choose the route that fits your teaching

Purchase individual units directly, request a formal quotation for classroom or institutional deployment, or work with OSN to plan teaching and workshop support.

INDIVIDUAL UNITS

For course development and small deployments

€299

per Spikeling v3.2 unit

For lecturers, demonstrations, course development, pilot practicals and small orders.

Assembled and tested
TVA non applicable — art. 293 B du CGI
Shipping calculated separately
Subject to availability

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CLASSROOM & INSTITUTIONAL ORDERS

For teaching laboratories and multi-unit deployment

For universities, teaching laboratories, training programmes and organisations requiring multiple units or formal purchasing documentation.

Formal quotation
Purchase orders supported
Institutional invoices
Shipping and lead time confirmed before order

Request institutional quote

WORKSHOPS & TEACHING SUPPORT

For courses, training programmes and outreach

Work with OSN to plan practical teaching, workshops or training around Spikeling, including programme-specific deployment and support.

Remote or on-site
Teaching and technical onboarding
Programme-specific planning
Follow-up support

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WHAT YOU RECEIVE

Everything needed to start experimenting

Documentation — Installation, experimental and technical documentation.

Protective enclosure — A fitted protective enclosure for the assembled unit.

Essential connections — The connections supplied with the current product configuration are prepared for initial use.

Desktop software — Spikeling desktop software for the supported platforms documented by OSN.

Installation, experimental and technical documentation.

The software, firmware, documentation and design files remain publicly available independently of purchasing hardware from OSN.

FOR EDUCATORS

Designed to scale from demonstrations to practical classes

Spikeling can support teaching at different scales without prescribing a fixed classroom pack or student-to-device ratio.

1 unit — Lecturer demonstration / course development

Small group — Shared practical setup

Teaching cohort — Multiple working stations

Multiple working stations

Product — Spikeling v3.2

INSTITUTIONAL PURCHASING

Information your purchasing team may need

Spikeling v3.2

Supplier — Open Source Neuro

Formal quotation — Available

Purchase orders — Supported

Institutional invoices — Supported

Supported

International orders — Supported

Software / firmware licence — GPL-3.0-or-later

Supported

Calculated / quoted separately

Lead time

Confirmed at quotation

CERN-OHL-S-2.0

GPL-3.0-or-later

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QUOTATION PROCESS

From request to prepared order

01 — Tell us what you need — Quantity, institution, destination and expected timeframe.

02 — We confirm the deployment — Availability, shipping and any relevant teaching requirements.

03 — You receive a formal quotation — Product, quantities, shipping and purchasing details.

Product, quantities, shipping and purchasing details.

04 — We prepare your order — Units are tested and prepared following confirmation.

We typically respond to quotation requests within 1–2 business days.

WORKSHOPS & COURSE SUPPORT

More than hardware deployment

Plan — Learning objectives, class size, equipment requirements and timetable.

Adapt — Activities aligned with neuronal dynamics, synaptic integration, experimental design, measurement and data analysis.

Deliver — Remote or on-site support, practical delivery, lecturer/TA onboarding and follow-up where currently offered.

Plan a Spikeling workshop

OPEN-SOURCE ALTERNATIVE

You do not have to purchase Spikeling from us

Spikeling is an open-source project. Hardware design files, firmware and desktop software are publicly available for inspection, modification and self-fabrication under their respective open licences.

Purchasing from OSN is the route for educators and institutions that prefer assembled, tested hardware and deployment support.

Hardware & source files Documentation

EVIDENCE IN PRACTICE

Built for teaching. Used in practice.

Peer-reviewed origin — PLOS Biology, 2018

PLOS Biology, 2018

University teaching — Developed from documented undergraduate teaching practice.

International training — Used in TReND / CaMiNA educational deployment.

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PURCHASING FAQ

Questions about purchasing and deployment

Do you ship internationally? — International orders are supported; destination, shipping cost and relevant documentation are confirmed before dispatch.

Can my institution pay by purchase order? — Yes. Include your institution’s purchasing requirements in the quotation request.

Can you provide a formal quotation before purchase? — Yes. Use the institutional quotation form for a product, quantity, shipping and purchasing breakdown.

How many units should we order for a class? — This depends on class size, teaching format and sharing. OSN can discuss deployment without imposing a fixed ratio.

What is included with each unit? — Each current unit is assembled, programmed and tested. Confirm exact enclosure and connections against the product listing or quotation.

Can we build Spikeling ourselves instead? — Yes. Hardware files, firmware, desktop software and documentation are publicly available under their respective open licences.

Lead time is confirmed at quotation or purchase, according to quantity and availability.

Yes. The hardware design files, firmware, desktop software and documentation are publicly available under their respective open licences.

Can we request enclosure options or colours? — The WooCommerce product currently lists colour variations. Availability is confirmed at purchase or quotation.

Public documentation remains available, and additional teaching support can be discussed according to the deployment.

The WooCommerce product currently lists colour variations. Availability is confirmed at purchase or quotation.

GET STARTED

Ready to bring Spikeling into your teaching?

Tell us how many learners you are planning for and how you would like to use the platform. We can help identify the appropriate purchasing or deployment route.

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