• Backyard Brains in Vienna: FENS 2024 Neuroscience Conference Recap
    Outreach
    This summer, we didn’t take a spin on the world’s oldest Ferris wheel that’s still in use. (Late June was just too hot for that.) Nor did we manage to take a bite of Sacher Cake or Viennese Schnitzel famous the world over. So what did we do in Vienna apart from admiring the city itself? […]
  • Backyard Brains at FENS 2022 - Neuroscience in the City of Light
    Education
    This summer’s been a busy and buzzy season for spreading the word on DIY neuroscience! As part of the outreach activities, our crew hit Paris to attend FENS (Forum of European Neuroscience), Europe’s largest international neuroscience conference. We set up shop there and demoed the latest upgrades of our bioamplifiers. And got sore muscles from […]
  • Hopped The Pond for FENS 2018
    Education
    The Open Hardware Symposium and our Exhibit Generated Excitement, Smiles, and Inspiration Every year, Backyard Brains reaches farther and farther with our quest to spread DIY neuroscience, and this year, we hopped the pond to the largest neuroscience conference in Europe! Our experiments were a hit at the Forum of European Neuroscience (FENS) held in Berlin, Germany […]