The Kennedy Pychophys suite consists of rooms 164 and 168.

Room 164 is the experimenter room, and contains the PCs used for stimulus presentation / session control and for BIOPAC physiological data collection. It is also home base for the "wireless" BIOPAC BioNomadix on the TSST Cart.

Room 168 is the participant room. It contains a table with the participant stimulus monitor, speakers, and headphones on it. A cabinet to the right of the table houses the "wired" BIOPAC MP160 and amps plus related instrumentation. Two additional cabinets house study-specific equipment and supplies.

Airbourne Stimulus PC

Video

• 2 ASUS VG248QE 3D 144Hz 1920x1080 monitors, driven in parallel by a
• NVIDIA GeForce GTZ 1060 GPU w/ 6 GB RAM
• Default video mode is 1920 x 1080 @ 144 Hz.
  • Use of other / older modes (for example, 800 x 600 @ 60 Hz) is discouraged. Please adapt your scripts to support this setup.

Hardware we needed to install on Airbourne

• The usual USB hasps for E-Prime 2 and 3 (these are mounted internally in the case)
• StarTech parallel port, which connects to the BIOPAC STP100C
• A USB->Ethernet adapter which connects to the Behringer X-Air XR18 digital mixer / signal processor.
• 2 x USB keyboard, 2 x USB mouse, one set connected directly to front of PC, other set in psychophys room connected (directly, no hubs!) via USB extension cables

Software we needed to install on Airbourne

• See Software we needed to install on Caffeine
• We had to install all the same software, drivers, shims, etc. on Airbourne, everything but the VPixx projector utilities and DisplayFusion.
• Plus the usual suspects: E-Prime (and license / USB hasp), plus PsychoPy.
• And the X-Air "Edit" app and driver (search for product XR18) from the Behringer downloads page.
  • Since the "Edit" app is a standalone .EXE file that doesn't need to be installed, it was put into C:\X-Air\ and a symbolic link to it was created in C:\Users\Public\Desktop\ so it shows up on all users' desktops.
  • The app won't know to connect to the X-Air the first time you run it, but will default to it after that.

Oct. 2022 Transition to CHM Environment

• Ty configured an instrumentation machine group that auto-installed E-Prime and PsychoPy along with other necessary things
• AcqKnowledge manually installed on the BIOPAC machine and TSST cart machine
• Airbourne tweaks:
  • Manually installed PsychoPy v1.85.4 for SCIM
  • Manually installed latest NVidia drivers (Studio version, no GeForce Experience crap)
  • Manually installed X-Air to C:\My Experiments
  • Manually installed Startech PCIe parallel & serial drivers
  • Copied 32bit and 64bit spooky parallel driver stuff from InpOut32 to:
    • \Windows\system32
    • \Windows\SysWow64
    • \Program Files(x86)\PsychoPy
    • \Program Files(x86)\PsychoPy\DLLs
  • Installed Arduino IDE and launched it, signing in as admin for all the driver installs