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Fellowship—Written by Fredi Mino— Fancy having a robot hand that mimics your real hand’s gestures? Me too! That’s why I’m designing one with another helping hand – from our good old friend, TinyML. I will do this by measuring the activity of the muscles involved in hand movements using surface Electromyography (sEMG). Then, we will use digital signal […] -
Fellowship***Written by Sofia Eisenbeiser*** Ever had this feeling that fish in your aquarium are having a blast? This summer I am working with a few of them to determine whether or not they exhibit play behaviors. This study began as a simple replication of Dr. Gordon Burghardt’s 2014 publication, which found that three white-spotted African cichlid fish […] -
Fellowship***Written by Nour Chahine*** Can you use a brain-computer interface to perform magic tricks? Guess what card someone is thinking of? That is exactly what my TinyML project, Pick a Card, is all about. I will develop a small screen to show a set of playing cards while measuring EEGs. The subject chooses a card, and an AI […] -
Fellowship—Written by Ariyana Miri— How much do you notice throughout your day? Are you paying attention to your surroundings? Are you present in every moment of your life? Odds are, the answer is no. As most adults know, the more we grow up, the more we seem to live on autopilot. We’ve got places to be […] -
Fellowship—Written by Sachin Pillai— This summer at Backyard Brains, I’m developing a Poker Bot trained via machine learning that can detect when players bluff and predict how risky a player’s hand is based on internal physiological reactions during the game. A full month into the fellowship, I’ve already had substantial progress with my project! The first week […] -
Fellowship—Written by Samuel Kuhn— This summer I am lucky enough to get to work with Backyard Brains on a project that pulls together neuroscience, computer engineering, philosophy, and philanthropy. This summer I am trying to build a device to detect free will! To even try and define free will, we must turn to the humanities for help. […] -
FellowshipCan TinyML Send Polygraphs to the Ash Heap of History? Our Fellow Sarah Falkovic Is Set to Find Out!—Post written by Sarah Falkovic— Can TinyML be used to design a small-scale lie detector model? Lie detection has been a field of interest for about as long as the field of neuroscience itself, if not longer! However, lie detection in our current culture involves administration by a trained professional in the form of a polygraph. While […] -
ExperimentEvery fencer will hear it countless times: warm-ups are a MUST. Do them and they’ll bump up your performance. Skip them and you may end up hurting yourself. But not every fencer will ask why! Supriya Nair, a busy sixth-grader from Redmond, WA, decided to conduct an experiment and find out what the correlation is between […] -
FellowshipCall for HS Teachers and Undergraduates in Biology, Engineering and the Arts: Calling all AI and neuroscience nerds (AND nerd wannabes): We are back! After taking a hiatus due to a global pandemic, we are proud to announce that we are returning with a very special guest star: TinyML! Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) is a deep learning toolkit […] -
Education— Written by Natalia Díaz — Hi there, it’s Natalia Díaz again with an update to my neuromathematical (yes, such a thing exists!) project. If you don’t remember me, I’m a student of Mathematical Engineering at the University of Santiago de Chile and I’m doing my internship here in BackyardBrains. Since the last time we met (you […] -
BizAnother accolade is about to hit our shelves! The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently announced recipients of the prestigious Tibbetts Award 2020. Backyard Brains is one of 38 companies that are deemed “beacons of promise and models of excellence in high technology.” Every year, Tibbie goes to companies, individuals and organizations “for the exceptional […] -
EducationWho says that hands-on approach doesn't work in virtual space? The DIY Neuroscience and AI for All workshop confirmed it!