Show HN: flyOS – A fruit fly connectome simulated in real time on an iPhone

Category: ai-ml

Tags: neuroscience, connectome, mobile, simulation, spiking-neurons

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 8, Documentation: 7, Utility: 5)

flyOS is an iPhone app that simulates a real fruit fly connectome in real time, allowing users to see a fly in their camera view that reacts to threats based on actual neural circuit simulations. It uses the full adult Drosophila connectome to run spiking neuron models on-device, with careful attention to data provenance and testing. It's interesting for merging neuroscience, real-time simulation, and mobile AR into an accessible demo.

Target audience: neuroscientists, computational biologists, mobile developers, and science enthusiasts

Repository: https://www.becomethefly.com · Jupyter Notebook · MIT · 388 stars

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