• The Fantastic Muscle Music Machine Experiment Trilogy
    Education
    Music is a passion, an art, a science, but maybe most importantly… music is fun! Variations of “electronic instruments” can be traced back as early as the late 1700s, but it is no exaggeration to say that the biggest breakthrough was the invention of Synthesizers in the 1950s. This marriage of music and electrical engineering […]
  • BRAINDING Project Commences with First Working Prototype
    Biz
    • March 23, 2017
    • by Greg
    Longtime Backyard Brains fans may recognize Pablo Guerra in the majority of our human interface videos. When not acting for Backyard Brains, Pablo Works as Electronic Music Artist, specifically, modifying electronic music instruments in a discipline called “Circuit Bending.” Circuit bending or also called “toy hacking” is the art of corrupting a musical toy from […]
  • Spotlight: Measuring Reflexes Using the EMG Reaction Timer!
    Education
    Meet the EMG Reaction Timer! The EMG Reaction Timer will settle once and for all who has the fastest draw in the west… or you can use it to perform neuroscience experiments, in the home or classroom, exploring how we respond to different kinds of stimuli! The Reaction Timer works with our EMG SpikerBox and Spike […]