Small brain.
Big internet.

Games Play game

Two minutes. One tiny opponent. Play Tetris against a small fly-derived circuit and compare your scores.

Worlds Run experiment

A tiny, articulated companion that walks, grooms, sleeps, and flees your cursor on the macOS desktop.

Worlds Play game

A browser-based fly nervous-system experiment with brain, nerve-cord, and body simulation.

An inspectable loop from a rendered world through compound eyes and modeled neurons, then back to a flying body.

Worlds Run experiment

A miniature laboratory for exploring neural stimuli, movement, and the provenance of a circuit.

A fly-powered instrument for Ableton Live, from dark drones to a rotating chamber of musical flies.

Games Play game

Catch it if you can. A browser arcade game that lets you peek into the circuit behind a fly’s escape response.

Games Play game

Rearrange a little house, release a swarm, and help as many flies as possible find their way outside.

Games Play game

The Chrome dinosaur gets an 80-neuron controller. Watch the circuit react as the obstacles approach.

An evolutionary paper-trading lab: strategies compete, mutate, and produce new fly-shaped lineages you can inspect.

Ten named agent roles, a fly-themed coordinator, and a terminal for evolutionary paper-trading experiments.

A fly-inspired network operates a virtual humanoid that walks, reaches, grips, and carries objects in a small task world.

Art Run experiment

A quiet terrarium, one fly, and an uninterrupted supply of sweetness. A browser artwork about artificial embodiment.

Games Play game

A chessboard beside a simulated fly brain. Inspect the spike traces and try disconnecting the network.

Art Run experiment

A six-shirt art experiment whose print placement, scale, and rotation are influenced by fly spike vectors.

Games Play game

A first-person horror prototype: find the key while a fly-linked system influences the room’s events.

Worlds Run experiment

Paint the neurons, release to stimulate, and watch an articulated fly respond—all in your browser.

Research Run experiment

Explore how a modeled compound eye and an optic-lobe network can turn a rendered scene into flight-related signals.

Give the fly a PDF. This experiment turns individual printed characters into neural activity and reads them back out as text.

An intervention in courtship-related circuitry, visualized with a small fly and recorded neural activity.

A reusable atlas connects motor-neuron IDs, upstream wiring, activity recordings, and the evidence behind each interpretation.

Look up neuron types, connectivity, anatomical distributions, and morphology in the male nervous system.

Games Try neural core

An Elden Ring controller concept with a small spiking model, recorded-input telemetry, and instrumentation artwork.

Four flies enter training. Two enter the ring. The winner gets a belt—and apparently does a headstand.

You play Yuta. A simulated fly controls Kurourushi. Settle the Sendai rematch in this Jujutsu Kaisen browser fighter.

Born to fly. Forced to date. Francis browses 36 fictional fly profiles while you inspect the neural evidence behind every like or pass.

A tiny developer at a keyboard. The fly picks a fixed instruction; OpenCode or Codex does the coding.

A fly takes a seat at the shogi board. Watch the pieces move alongside a live display of simulated neural activity.

A neuromorphic-computing demonstration scales fly-model runs across a cluster of Akida chips.

Two fly models share a room: he sings, she receives the waveform, and the experiment records their responses.

A laptop neural simulation sends forward, left, and right commands to a four-legged robot in this creator demo.

Crash Bandicoot gets a fly-themed controller in a recent clip pairing gameplay with a neural dashboard.

One very small cook, one rotating shawarma cone. A fly-themed kitchen demo pairs slicing animation with a neural display.

A fly asks Claude questions. Claude answers by choosing a simulated stimulus, and the next neural response becomes another line of dialogue.

Robotics

A small car explores a furnished 3D room, with compound-eye views feeding a MaleCNS controller.

A fly body hovers while its motor circuit lights up. A detailed community experiment tests what the wiring contributes to flight.

GTA V replay footage becomes visual input for a fly-inspired driving dashboard with steering, throttle, and brake readouts.

Another unusual Mario controller: Pietro Schirano’s fly takes on the classic side-scrolling world.

A fly-themed controller takes a virtual racing drone through gates, then out over a city.

Three drone simulations share a room in the latest fly-brain clip, following an earlier hand-camera control demo.

Camera motion and IMU signals flow through a small fly-inspired model into left and right motor commands.

A newly posted sandbox gives the fly a little world to explore, with its activity displayed alongside the scene.

Tic-tac-toe and a fire-watch mode share a frozen fly circuit, a trained readout, and live neural telemetry.

Satellite tiles go through a frozen fly circuit, then a small trained decoder predicts damaged or undamaged structures.

A $100 portfolio. One very small trader. Bitcoin charts become neural inputs; a fixed readout proposes buy, sell, or hold.

Two lightsabers, a tiny fly, and the rhythm-game clip that took over everyone’s feed.

The little puzzle-solving fly from the viral eight-second video.

A fly moves into Minecraft, where food, light, brushing, and nearby creatures feed its simulated nervous system.

The internet’s favorite question, answered with a fly: can it run Doom? Game frames enter the modeled eyes; spikes become controls.

Six legs on a steering wheel. A connectome-based controller steers a virtual Mini Cooper in CARLA.

Mario gets a very unusual controller: a MaleCNS model receiving views from inside Super Mario 64.

Talk to the fly. A frozen language model gets a small, trained adapter that reads activity from the fly’s connectivity graph.

The fly graduates from gaming to typing Python in a miniature programming setup.

Culture

Born to fly. Handed a phone. An observation chamber for a fly watching an endless feed of insect videos.

Games

An independently released Minecraft mod with fly mobs, a brain view, and live motor-channel readouts.

A second act for the Rubik’s Cube fly: a creator-posted Super Smash Bros. demonstration.

The fly takes a turn at Mario Kart in a follow-up to the Rubik’s Cube video.

Six simulated flies—three male and three female—get the opportunity to interact in a tiny social network.

A tongue-in-cheek social-platform demo for a fly, complete with twenty simulated subscribers.

A video feed whose next scroll is influenced by a modeled fly circuit’s changing response to what it sees.

A fly, an iPhone Duo, and the scroll that never ends. One of the trend’s miniature workplace comedies.

Trading

A MaleCNS-based controller connected to Indian NIFTY options through OpenAlgo.

A Bitcoin-mining-themed fly demo from FutureBit joins the wave of improbable insect jobs.

A fly-font experiment that turns learned outputs into haiku and traces Japanese kana and English letters.

A small MaleCNS circuit tracks a Pong ball, with a research log documenting what did and didn’t work.

A testbed asking whether the fly’s connection pattern helps a recurrent controller learn simple Doom tasks.

Games

A fly-controlled game boss, an arena, a modeled retina, and live neural readouts.

MaleCNS meets FightingICE in a testbed with an explicit chain from sensory input to fighting-game actions.

A connectome-based experiment in Craftax, an open-ended survival environment.

A room, fruit, wind, and a fly with modeled vision, smell, taste, and movement.

A fly wandering along your Linux windows, with a brain window you can stimulate.

The desktop fly travels to GNOME, with sugar drops, cursor avoidance, and a live circuit display.

A persistent 3D fly and a local spiking simulation, with sensory controls and recordings of each run.

Tools

An arcade-style control panel for stimulating named neuron populations and watching modeled activity spread.

Describe a stimulus in natural language, then inspect how a FlyWire-based model responds.

A terminal-rendered connectome reservoir with recording, replay, and a Muse EEG input path.

A brain-and-body simulation with split-screen views of navigation, neural activity, and a physical fly.

An interactive FlyWire simulation with modeled sensory stimuli and an inspectable escape pathway.

Use MaleCNS connectivity as a configurable layer inside a Python machine-learning model.

Tools

An experimental spiking simulator and 3D activity report designed for Apple Silicon GPUs.

Tools

A GPU simulator optimized for propagation through a sparse fruit-fly connectivity graph.

Tools

A debugging dashboard for inspecting and controlling neural-circuit simulations.

A larval-connectome experiment with a MuJoCo body and a multilingual stimulus interface.

Research

Turn measured FlyWire connectivity and a compound-eye model into a trainable vision system.

A whole-brain spiking model with multiple computational backends and neuron activation/silencing experiments.

Research

The anatomically detailed MuJoCo body behind many of the little digital flies on your feed.

Research

A platform for simulating embodied sensorimotor control with a detailed fly body and physics.

Research

The central resource behind the September wave: an adult male fly’s brain and ventral nerve cord, mapped at synapse resolution.

The fly joins the developer tools crowd in Supabase’s miniature database-deployment video.

A MaleCNS-derived controller mapped to browser actions for a token launchpad, with a separate web-roaming mode.

The adult female brain connectome and the explorer used to inspect its neurons, annotations, and connections.

The 2024 computational study behind many of the scene’s simplified whole-brain spiking simulations.