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  "reviewedAt": "2026-09-16",
  "description": "Source-reviewed directory; experiments not independently reproduced.",
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    {
      "id": "stonkfly",
      "title": "Stonkfly",
      "creator": "Alex Wormuth",
      "category": "Trading",
      "repo": "https://github.com/nftechie/stonkfly",
      "description": "A $100 portfolio. One very small trader. Bitcoin charts become neural inputs; a fixed readout proposes buy, sell, or hold.",
      "note": "The repository defaults to paper trading and offers optional Coinbase execution. Engineered dopamine inputs and changing synapses have not demonstrated profitable learning.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": "https://x.com/wormuth/status/2098012107652391357",
      "handle": "wormuth",
      "demo": "https://stonkfly-three.vercel.app/",
      "tags": [
        "Bitcoin",
        "Full graph"
      ],
      "image": "/images/stonkfly.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2097893699925458948/img/LOeUzu35T_s5f70k.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Alex Wormuth’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 540
    },
    {
      "id": "beat-saber",
      "title": "Beat Saber fly",
      "creator": "lyra bubbles",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": null,
      "description": "Two lightsabers, a tiny fly, and the rhythm-game clip that took over everyone’s feed.",
      "note": "The creator says the model is overfit to one track, with replay information among its inputs. This is a motor-control experiment, not demonstrated general Beat Saber skill.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Creator demo",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": "https://x.com/_lyraaaa_/status/2097527368919470162",
      "handle": "_lyraaaa_",
      "tags": [
        "Rhythm",
        "Overfit demo"
      ],
      "image": "/images/beat-saber.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2097526768739737600/img/ciBu9rPeJEMJZdA2.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from lyra bubbles’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 620
    },
    {
      "id": "rubiks",
      "title": "The Rubik’s Cube fly",
      "creator": "Nick Walton",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": null,
      "description": "The little puzzle-solving fly from the viral eight-second video.",
      "note": "A creator-posted demonstration. No reproducible code or evaluation was located in the reviewed sources; the clip alone does not verify the claimed training or puzzle-solving ability.",
      "dataset": "Unspecified",
      "status": "Creator demo",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": "https://x.com/nickwalton00/status/2098301053372621070",
      "handle": "nickwalton00",
      "tags": [
        "Rubik’s Cube",
        "Viral demo"
      ],
      "image": "/images/rubiks.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2098300906966241280/img/RzaNBerGnhFEyzbv.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Nick Walton’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 540
    },
    {
      "id": "neurocraft",
      "title": "NeuroCraft Fly",
      "creator": "Evan Smith",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": "https://github.com/evnsnclr/neurocraft-fly-public",
      "description": "A fly moves into Minecraft, where food, light, brushing, and nearby creatures feed its simulated nervous system.",
      "note": "The public repository contains footage and project documentation. Runnable mod and companion source are still being prepared. Neural readouts select and modulate scripted body programs.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Release pending",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": "https://x.com/evnsnclr/status/2095975490708291948",
      "handle": "evnsnclr",
      "tags": [
        "Minecraft",
        "Full graph"
      ],
      "image": "/images/neurocraft.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2095974714162511872/img/xUxhHCi9a5kSbreF.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Evan Smith’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 528
    },
    {
      "id": "doomfly",
      "title": "Doomfly",
      "creator": "Alex Wormuth",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": "https://github.com/nftechie/doomfly",
      "description": "The internet’s favorite question, answered with a fly: can it run Doom? Game frames enter the modeled eyes; spikes become controls.",
      "note": "The full retained MaleCNS graph is connected to ViZDoom. The current v6 candidate failed visual, conditioning, and survival validation gates; learned survival has not been demonstrated.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": "https://x.com/wormuth/status/2097711063135383642",
      "handle": "wormuth",
      "tags": [
        "Doom",
        "Full graph"
      ],
      "image": "/images/doomfly.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2097711005941817344/img/G90WiorzYBTsGL0N.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Alex Wormuth’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 540
    },
    {
      "id": "desktopfly",
      "title": "DesktopFly",
      "creator": "Denis Shiryaev",
      "category": "Worlds",
      "repo": "https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly",
      "description": "A tiny, articulated companion that walks, grooms, sleeps, and flees your cursor on the macOS desktop.",
      "note": "Combines selected FlyWire circuits with a 1,045-neuron MaleCNS brain-to-leg extract and modeled senses. The larger brain view displays anatomical positions; displayed points are not the simulated circuit size.",
      "dataset": "FlyWire + MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Desktop pet",
        "macOS"
      ],
      "asset": "assets/fly.png",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/desktopfly.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "master",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly/master/assets/fly.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Denis Shiryaev’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 960
    },
    {
      "id": "flyocr",
      "title": "FlyOCR",
      "creator": "Jerry Liu",
      "category": "Tools",
      "repo": "https://github.com/jerryjliu/fly_ocr",
      "description": "Give the fly a PDF. This experiment turns individual printed characters into neural activity and reads them back out as text.",
      "note": "Retains the MaleCNS graph with frozen internal weights and a trained decoder. The README reports 87.6% on a 1,632-glyph benchmark and 5.7% character error on 176 reference characters. These are limited-font, selected-crop experiments. The 3D fly is illustrative animation beside recorded OCR.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": "https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/2099168936059437206",
      "handle": "jerryjliu0",
      "tags": [
        "OCR",
        "Full graph"
      ],
      "image": "/images/flyocr.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2099168693867692032/img/eFSGinIFxADeISsL.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Jerry Liu’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 540
    },
    {
      "id": "flyhard",
      "title": "Flyhard",
      "creator": "Mark Unthank",
      "category": "Robotics",
      "repo": "https://github.com/MarkUnthank/flyhard",
      "description": "Six legs on a steering wheel. A connectome-based controller steers a virtual Mini Cooper in CARLA.",
      "note": "The documented result is instructed-angle steering through a simulated foreleg, including held-out targets and grip controls. Speed is scripted; autonomous visual driving remains untested.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": null,
      "handle": "alrightmark",
      "tags": [
        "Driving",
        "CARLA"
      ],
      "image": null,
      "repoBranch": "main"
    },
    {
      "id": "fly64",
      "title": "Fly64",
      "creator": "Jessica Paquette",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": "https://github.com/ornata/fly",
      "description": "Mario gets a very unusual controller: a MaleCNS model receiving views from inside Super Mario 64.",
      "note": "A macOS hobby experiment with engineered sensory and button mappings. The author describes it as unreviewed, AI-assisted code tested on one Mac. Running it requires your own game ROM.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": "https://x.com/barrelshifter/status/2097004115826200898",
      "handle": "barrelshifter",
      "tags": [
        "Super Mario 64",
        "macOS"
      ],
      "image": "/images/fly64.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2097003650820485124/img/85z_Zbx7QDpKHi_i.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Jessica Paquette’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 625
    },
    {
      "id": "flm",
      "title": "Fly Language Model",
      "creator": "Alex Wormuth",
      "category": "Tools",
      "repo": "https://github.com/nftechie/flm",
      "description": "Talk to the fly. A frozen language model gets a small, trained adapter that reads activity from the fly’s connectivity graph.",
      "note": "Language comes from LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct. Only the adapter learns; the anatomical graph stays fixed. The associated study does not establish an advantage from fly anatomy.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": "https://x.com/wormuth/status/2098532090874560815",
      "handle": "wormuth",
      "demo": "https://fly-language-model.vercel.app/",
      "tags": [
        "Language",
        "Adapter"
      ],
      "image": "/images/flm.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2098499401509732352/img/6CpDQvODI8NNIcxS.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Alex Wormuth’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 540
    },
    {
      "id": "fly-escape",
      "title": "Help the Fly Escape",
      "creator": "dzhng",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": "https://github.com/dzhng/fly-escape",
      "description": "Rearrange a little house, release a swarm, and help as many flies as possible find their way outside.",
      "note": "A 3D browser game using a selected MaleCNS circuit, Rust/WebAssembly simulation, and authored environments. This is a circuit-based game, not a whole-animal reconstruction.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "demo": "https://fly-escape.vercel.app/",
      "tags": [
        "Playable",
        "Puzzle"
      ],
      "asset": "specs/done/help-the-fly-escape/assets/evidence/34-game-overlays/setup.png",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/fly-escape.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dzhng/fly-escape/main/specs/done/help-the-fly-escape/assets/evidence/34-game-overlays/setup.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from David Zhang’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 600
    },
    {
      "id": "python",
      "title": "The Python fly",
      "creator": "nalin",
      "category": "Culture",
      "repo": null,
      "description": "The fly graduates from gaming to typing Python in a miniature programming setup.",
      "note": "A viral creator video, posted with a reference to Capy. No reproducible code or evaluation was located in the reviewed thread. Programming ability is unverified.",
      "dataset": "Unspecified",
      "status": "Creator demo",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": "https://x.com/lordspline/status/2098445714741166336",
      "handle": "lordspline",
      "tags": [
        "Coding",
        "Viral demo"
      ],
      "image": "/images/python.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2098420932746645504/img/KEPGiD_NEmiwFcTJ.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from nalin’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 540
    },
    {
      "id": "infinite-sugar",
      "title": "Infinite Sugar",
      "creator": "cnqso",
      "category": "Art",
      "repo": "https://github.com/cnqso/infinite-sugar",
      "description": "A quiet terrarium, one fly, and an uninterrupted supply of sweetness. A browser artwork about artificial embodiment.",
      "note": "FlyWire-derived activity drives feeding and some body motion. Wing movements and small foot shuffles use supplied patterns. Inspired by Harris Rosenblum’s Infinite Pain.",
      "dataset": "FlyWire",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "demo": "https://infinitesugar.cnqso.com/",
      "tags": [
        "Playable",
        "Terrarium"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/infinite-sugar.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://infinitesugar.cnqso.com/",
      "imageCredit": "Screenshot of cnqso’s project website",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 860
    },
    {
      "id": "fly-lab",
      "title": "Fly Lab",
      "creator": "Apolotary",
      "category": "Art",
      "repo": "https://github.com/Apolotary/fly-lab",
      "description": "A fly-powered instrument for Ableton Live, from dark drones to a rotating chamber of musical flies.",
      "note": "The Dark lab trains a small musical readout over simulated motor circuits. The harmony, rhythm, and gestures are authored; the measured wiring stays fixed.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Music",
        "Ableton Live"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": null,
      "repoBranch": "main"
    },
    {
      "id": "wirehead",
      "title": "Fly / Wirehead",
      "creator": "Matty Hempstead",
      "category": "Culture",
      "repo": "https://github.com/mattyhempstead/fly-wirehead",
      "description": "Born to fly. Handed a phone. An observation chamber for a fly watching an endless feed of insect videos.",
      "note": "Video frames stimulate modeled sensory inputs in a locally running MaleCNS simulation. Body motion and neural telemetry are displayed in a browser; the phone advances every three seconds.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Doomscrolling",
        "Full graph"
      ],
      "asset": "docs/assets/fly-wirehead.png",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/wirehead.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattyhempstead/fly-wirehead/main/docs/assets/fly-wirehead.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Matty Hempstead’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 627
    },
    {
      "id": "fruitless",
      "title": "Fruitless",
      "creator": "Nico Christie",
      "category": "Research",
      "repo": "https://github.com/nicodunks/fruitless",
      "description": "An intervention in courtship-related circuitry, visualized with a small fly and recorded neural activity.",
      "note": "Compares intact wiring with blocked mAL output in a 166,606-neuron model. Results are model-specific changes in candidate-neuron activity, not a demonstration of changing a real fly’s sexuality.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": "https://x.com/nicochristie/status/2098106823970828606",
      "handle": "nicochristie",
      "tags": [
        "Circuit study",
        "Courtship"
      ],
      "image": "/images/fruitless.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nicodunks/fruitless/main/experiment/followup/figures/cue-response-left.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Nico Christie’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 768
    },
    {
      "id": "swat",
      "title": "Swat",
      "creator": "hrook1",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": "https://github.com/hrook1/Swat",
      "description": "Catch it if you can. A browser arcade game that lets you peek into the circuit behind a fly’s escape response.",
      "note": "Uses a 6,000-neuron MaleCNS subset. Neural activity influences evasion; cruising, animation, and collisions are authored game mechanics.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "demo": "https://fruitfly-tiny-brain.vercel.app/",
      "tags": [
        "Playable",
        "Circuit subset"
      ],
      "asset": "public/og.png",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/swat.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hrook1/Swat/main/public/og.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from hrook1’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 504
    },
    {
      "id": "minecraft-mod",
      "title": "Fly Brain Minecraft",
      "creator": "blendi-remade",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": "https://github.com/blendi-remade/fly-brain-minecraft",
      "description": "An independently released Minecraft mod with fly mobs, a brain view, and live motor-channel readouts.",
      "note": "A Fabric 1.21.1 mod using a filtered MaleCNS graph and project-defined sensory/motor mappings. This is separate from Evan Smith’s NeuroCraft Fly.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Minecraft",
        "Fabric mod"
      ],
      "asset": "docs/media/hud-brainview-neuroscope.png",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/minecraft-mod.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blendi-remade/fly-brain-minecraft/main/docs/media/hud-brainview-neuroscope.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from blendi-remade’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 539
    },
    {
      "id": "fly-chess",
      "title": "Fly Chess Lab",
      "creator": "tolatolatop",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": "https://github.com/tolatolatop/fly-chess",
      "description": "A chessboard beside a simulated fly brain. Inspect the spike traces and try disconnecting the network.",
      "note": "The FlyWire network runs in a browser Web Worker through Rust/WebAssembly. Chess input encoding and move scoring are engineered, and the move readout is untrained.",
      "dataset": "FlyWire",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "demo": "https://tolatolatop.github.io/fly-chess/",
      "tags": [
        "Playable",
        "Chess"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/fly-chess.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://tolatolatop.github.io/fly-chess/",
      "imageCredit": "Screenshot of tolatolatop’s project website",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 860
    },
    {
      "id": "fly-dino",
      "title": "Fly Dino",
      "creator": "Mert Cobanov",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": "https://github.com/cobanov/flyjump",
      "description": "The Chrome dinosaur gets an 80-neuron controller. Watch the circuit react as the obstacles approach.",
      "note": "Uses a fixed MaleCNS circuit with simplified leaky tanh dynamics. Training changes a 243-parameter artificial readout; the repository includes benchmarks and silencing controls.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "demo": "https://flydino.cobanov.dev/",
      "tags": [
        "Playable",
        "Circuit subset"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/fly-dino.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://flydino.cobanov.dev/",
      "imageCredit": "Screenshot of Mert Cobanov’s project website",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 860
    },
    {
      "id": "super-smash",
      "title": "Super Smash Fly",
      "creator": "Nick Walton",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": null,
      "description": "A second act for the Rubik’s Cube fly: a creator-posted Super Smash Bros. demonstration.",
      "note": "The creator reports winning two of three matches against bots. Code, controls, and an independent evaluation were not located; treat the performance as an unverified creator claim.",
      "dataset": "Unspecified",
      "status": "Creator demo",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": "https://x.com/nickwalton00/status/2098537903110652087",
      "handle": "nickwalton00",
      "tags": [
        "Super Smash Bros.",
        "Viral demo"
      ],
      "image": "/images/super-smash.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2098537618095140864/img/P0HPdgsMUWw8zh8K.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Nick Walton’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 540
    },
    {
      "id": "mario-kart",
      "title": "Mario Kart fly",
      "creator": "Nick Walton",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": null,
      "description": "The fly takes a turn at Mario Kart in a follow-up to the Rubik’s Cube video.",
      "note": "Creator-posted demo. No reproducible implementation or evidence of general racing ability was located in the reviewed sources.",
      "dataset": "Unspecified",
      "status": "Creator demo",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": "https://x.com/nickwalton00/status/2098462914156065162",
      "handle": "nickwalton00",
      "tags": [
        "Racing",
        "Viral demo"
      ],
      "image": "/images/mario-kart.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2098462497565274112/img/AqJXpO0Du3FXWkDM.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Nick Walton’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 654
    },
    {
      "id": "social-flies",
      "title": "A social network for flies",
      "creator": "Alex Wormuth",
      "category": "Culture",
      "repo": null,
      "description": "Six simulated flies—three male and three female—get the opportunity to interact in a tiny social network.",
      "note": "The creator describes separate neural states and memories, with neural activity deciding responses to presentations. No public code link was located in the reviewed announcement.",
      "dataset": "Male + female connectomes",
      "status": "Creator demo",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": "https://x.com/wormuth/status/2098371978612924425",
      "handle": "wormuth",
      "tags": [
        "Social",
        "Creator demo"
      ],
      "image": "/images/social-flies.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2098271853764874240/img/GiUS31GwbJZVGokb.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Alex Wormuth’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 540
    },
    {
      "id": "onlyflies",
      "title": "Onlyflies",
      "creator": "bloomy btw",
      "category": "Culture",
      "repo": null,
      "description": "A tongue-in-cheek social-platform demo for a fly, complete with twenty simulated subscribers.",
      "note": "A creator-posted parody. No reproducible source or evaluation was located; inclusion documents the meme, not a verified neural capability.",
      "dataset": "Unspecified",
      "status": "Creator demo",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": "https://x.com/yungcontent/status/2099195369293070727",
      "handle": "yungcontent",
      "tags": [
        "Parody",
        "Viral demo"
      ],
      "image": "/images/onlyflies.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2099195258659901440/img/gCcp-ASBB6HSN5tC.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from bloomy btw’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 768,
      "imageHeight": 960
    },
    {
      "id": "flyscroll",
      "title": "FlyScroll",
      "creator": "ranagwho",
      "category": "Culture",
      "repo": "https://github.com/ranagwho/Fruitfly-Doomscroller",
      "description": "A video feed whose next scroll is influenced by a modeled fly circuit’s changing response to what it sees.",
      "note": "Uses engineered visual input, novelty calculations, and mushroom-body plasticity. Includes a visual crop and a full-graph option; a maximum-watch timeout also advances clips.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Doomscrolling",
        "Video"
      ],
      "asset": "docs/flyscroll-demo.gif",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/flyscroll.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ranagwho/Fruitfly-Doomscroller/main/docs/flyscroll-demo.gif",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from ranagwho’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 527
    },
    {
      "id": "iphone-fly",
      "title": "iPhone doomscrolling fly",
      "creator": "Hamudi",
      "category": "Culture",
      "repo": null,
      "description": "A fly, an iPhone Duo, and the scroll that never ends. One of the trend’s miniature workplace comedies.",
      "note": "Creator-posted video. A reproducible model and code were not located in the reviewed announcement.",
      "dataset": "Unspecified",
      "status": "Creator demo",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": "https://x.com/hamudinaanaa/status/2098446524011397148",
      "handle": "hamudinaanaa",
      "tags": [
        "Doomscrolling",
        "Viral demo"
      ],
      "image": "/images/iphone-fly.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2098446494605123584/img/fcAO-M-dNaFgO-rk.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Hamudi’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 524
    },
    {
      "id": "openfly",
      "title": "OpenFly",
      "creator": "marketcalls",
      "category": "Trading",
      "repo": "https://github.com/marketcalls/openfly",
      "description": "A MaleCNS-based controller connected to Indian NIFTY options through OpenAlgo.",
      "note": "The documented default is paper trading. Strategy rules, risk limits, and action decoding are engineered. No profitable edge has been demonstrated.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Paper trading",
        "Options"
      ],
      "asset": "assets/OpenFly.png",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/openfly.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marketcalls/openfly/main/assets/OpenFly.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from marketcalls’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 480
    },
    {
      "id": "hashfly",
      "title": "HashFly",
      "creator": "FutureBit",
      "category": "Trading",
      "repo": null,
      "description": "A Bitcoin-mining-themed fly demo from FutureBit joins the wave of improbable insect jobs.",
      "note": "A promotional creator demo. The claimed efficiency of hypothetical organic hardware is not a measured result for this software and is not independently verified here.",
      "dataset": "Unspecified",
      "status": "Creator demo",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "post": "https://x.com/FutureBit/status/2099241052997570816",
      "handle": "FutureBit",
      "tags": [
        "Bitcoin",
        "Creator demo"
      ],
      "image": "/images/hashfly.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2099239516309688320/img/KbNet0qYlQnqeoOE.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from FutureBit’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 898,
      "imageHeight": 960
    },
    {
      "id": "faiku",
      "title": "Faiku",
      "creator": "xyzzyapps",
      "category": "Art",
      "repo": "https://github.com/xyzzyapps/faiku",
      "description": "A fly-font experiment that turns learned outputs into haiku and traces Japanese kana and English letters.",
      "note": "Includes a full MaleCNS path and a much smaller fallback. Glyphs, rewards, and language mappings are project-defined; this does not show that biological flies compose poetry.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Poetry",
        "Lettering"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": null,
      "repoBranch": "master"
    },
    {
      "id": "fashion",
      "title": "Fruit Fly Fashion",
      "creator": "jtc268",
      "category": "Art",
      "repo": "https://github.com/jtc268/fruit-fly-fashion",
      "description": "A six-shirt art experiment whose print placement, scale, and rotation are influenced by fly spike vectors.",
      "note": "The source describes a full retained MaleCNS simulation based on Doomfly. The fly transforms existing print compositions; it does not originate every aspect of the artwork.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "demo": "https://fruitfly.fashion/",
      "tags": [
        "Fashion",
        "Generative art"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/fashion.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://fruitfly.fashion/",
      "imageCredit": "Screenshot of jtc268’s project website",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 860
    },
    {
      "id": "flypong",
      "title": "FlyPong",
      "creator": "jonatasperaza",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": "https://github.com/jonatasperaza/FlyPong",
      "description": "A small MaleCNS circuit tracks a Pong ball, with a research log documenting what did and didn’t work.",
      "note": "The repository reports sensory responses but no evidence of successful dopamine-based learning in its tested variants. Uses a circuit subset and a simple motor readout.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Pong",
        "Circuit subset"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": null,
      "repoBranch": "main"
    },
    {
      "id": "flydoom-lab",
      "title": "FlyDoom research framework",
      "creator": "eganeganegan",
      "category": "Research",
      "repo": "https://github.com/eganeganegan/flydoom",
      "description": "A testbed asking whether the fly’s connection pattern helps a recurrent controller learn simple Doom tasks.",
      "note": "Includes matched random graphs and conventional-network baselines, with several training modes. It tests an architectural constraint rather than claiming biological brain emulation.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Doom",
        "Benchmarks"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": null,
      "repoBranch": "main"
    },
    {
      "id": "flybrain-arena",
      "title": "FlyBrain Arena",
      "creator": "Jhongdlp",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": "https://github.com/Jhongdlp/FlyBrain",
      "description": "A fly-controlled game boss, an arena, a modeled retina, and live neural readouts.",
      "note": "Pairs a Rust neural engine with Python training and a Three.js viewer. Biological wiring is combined with modeled dynamics and game-specific inputs and outputs.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Game boss",
        "Rust"
      ],
      "asset": "assets/pelea.png",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/flybrain-arena.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jhongdlp/FlyBrain/main/assets/pelea.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Jhongdlp’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 600
    },
    {
      "id": "connectome-fighter",
      "title": "Connectome Fighter",
      "creator": "Unjuno",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": "https://github.com/Unjuno/connectome-fighter",
      "description": "MaleCNS meets FightingICE in a testbed with an explicit chain from sensory input to fighting-game actions.",
      "note": "Uses modeled spiking dynamics and project-defined reinforcement and action groups. The public research ledger is distinct from the locally configured live backend.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "demo": "https://unjuno.github.io/connectome-fighter/",
      "tags": [
        "Fighting",
        "Research ledger"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": null,
      "repoBranch": "main"
    },
    {
      "id": "craftax",
      "title": "fly-craftax",
      "creator": "liuzihe02",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": "https://github.com/liuzihe02/fly-craftax",
      "description": "A connectome-based experiment in Craftax, an open-ended survival environment.",
      "note": "Provides PPO training for a descending-neuron readout, baseline comparisons, and a replay viewer. A research prototype rather than a general survival capability claim.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Survival",
        "Readout training"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": null,
      "repoBranch": "main"
    },
    {
      "id": "flyfear",
      "title": "FLYFEAR",
      "creator": "furkancak1r",
      "category": "Games",
      "repo": "https://github.com/furkancak1r/flyfear",
      "description": "A first-person horror prototype: find the key while a fly-linked system influences the room’s events.",
      "note": "A Godot game using a MaleCNS-derived simulation and an external adaptive event-selection layer. The learning layer and authored horror mechanics are distinct from the measured connectome.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "demo": "https://furkancakir.dev/flyfear/",
      "tags": [
        "Playable",
        "Horror"
      ],
      "asset": "reports/game-1080p.png",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/flyfear.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/furkancak1r/flyfear/main/reports/game-1080p.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from furkancak1r’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 540
    },
    {
      "id": "flyverse",
      "title": "flyverse",
      "creator": "tel-0s",
      "category": "Worlds",
      "repo": "https://github.com/tel-0s/flyverse-core",
      "description": "A room, fruit, wind, and a fly with modeled vision, smell, taste, and movement.",
      "note": "Supports MaleCNS and female datasets. Sensory physiology, brain-to-body coupling, and motor behavior depend on documented modeling assumptions.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Room simulation",
        "Multisensory"
      ],
      "asset": "docs/demo_ui.png",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/flyverse.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tel-0s/flyverse-core/main/docs/demo_ui.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from tel-0s’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 579
    },
    {
      "id": "closed-loop",
      "title": "Closed-Loop Fly",
      "creator": "ZeroXClem",
      "category": "Worlds",
      "repo": "https://github.com/ZeroXClem/closed-loop-fly",
      "description": "An inspectable loop from a rendered world through compound eyes and modeled neurons, then back to a flying body.",
      "note": "Combines AbijahKaj’s optic-lobe model with Xenova’s WebGPU simulation. The project documents the interface and distinctions between neurons, directed pairs, and synaptic contacts.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Browser simulation",
        "WebGPU"
      ],
      "asset": "docs/cruise-intact.gif",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/closed-loop.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ZeroXClem/closed-loop-fly/main/docs/cruise-intact.gif",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from ZeroXClem’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 540
    },
    {
      "id": "neuroterrarium",
      "title": "NeuroTerrarium",
      "creator": "5p00kyy",
      "category": "Worlds",
      "repo": "https://github.com/5p00kyy/neuroterrarium",
      "description": "A miniature laboratory for exploring neural stimuli, movement, and the provenance of a circuit.",
      "note": "The default 48-neuron terrarium is synthetic. A separate 51-body MaleCNS microcircuit can be inspected and stimulated, but does not drive the fly. Its default pulse test found no topology advantage.",
      "dataset": "Synthetic + MaleCNS subset",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Terrarium",
        "Circuit subset"
      ],
      "asset": "docs/assets/terrarium.webp",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/neuroterrarium.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/5p00kyy/neuroterrarium/main/docs/assets/terrarium.webp",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from 5p00kyy’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 471
    },
    {
      "id": "gnat",
      "title": "gnat",
      "creator": "lubabs770",
      "category": "Worlds",
      "repo": "https://github.com/lubabs770/gnat",
      "description": "A fly wandering along your Linux windows, with a brain window you can stimulate.",
      "note": "A Hyprland/Wayland port of DesktopFly running a 668-neuron circuit. Uses modeled sensory inputs and desktop interactions.",
      "dataset": "FlyWire subset",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Desktop pet",
        "Linux"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": null,
      "repoBranch": "main"
    },
    {
      "id": "desktop-linux",
      "title": "DesktopFly for Linux",
      "creator": "somsom10",
      "category": "Worlds",
      "repo": "https://github.com/somsom10/desktop-fly-linux",
      "description": "The desktop fly travels to GNOME, with sugar drops, cursor avoidance, and a live circuit display.",
      "note": "A Python/GTK port using the upstream 668-neuron FlyWire circuit. The source documents X11/Wayland differences and platform limitations.",
      "dataset": "FlyWire subset",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Desktop pet",
        "Linux"
      ],
      "asset": "docs/img/fly.png",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/desktop-linux.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/somsom10/desktop-fly-linux/main/docs/img/fly.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from somsom10’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 540
    },
    {
      "id": "flywire-neuro",
      "title": "FlyWire Neuro",
      "creator": "pusulamkendim",
      "category": "Worlds",
      "repo": "https://github.com/pusulamkendim/flywire-neuro",
      "description": "A persistent 3D fly and a local spiking simulation, with sensory controls and recordings of each run.",
      "note": "Descending-neuron activity selects measured or cached motor behavior. The authors identify sensory calibration, movement transitions, and brain-to-body mappings as approximations.",
      "dataset": "FlyWire",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Embodiment",
        "Local simulation"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": null,
      "repoBranch": "main"
    },
    {
      "id": "flyboard",
      "title": "FLYBOARD",
      "creator": "NullLabTests",
      "category": "Tools",
      "repo": "https://github.com/NullLabTests/flybrain",
      "description": "An arcade-style control panel for stimulating named neuron populations and watching modeled activity spread.",
      "note": "Runs simplified dynamics on retained MaleCNS connectivity. Buttons inject current directly into specified populations; the display is a model-state viewer, not measured living activity.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Brain viewer",
        "CPU"
      ],
      "asset": "docs/screens/01_idle.png",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/flyboard.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NullLabTests/flybrain/main/docs/screens/01_idle.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from NullLabTests’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 525
    },
    {
      "id": "chat-fly",
      "title": "Chat with a Fruit Fly Brain",
      "creator": "lixiang1076",
      "category": "Tools",
      "repo": "https://github.com/lixiang1076/fly-brain",
      "description": "Describe a stimulus in natural language, then inspect how a FlyWire-based model responds.",
      "note": "The language interface translates requests into modeled stimulation. Dopamine-learning rules and action interpretations are project-defined.",
      "dataset": "FlyWire",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Language interface",
        "Simulation"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": null,
      "repoBranch": "main"
    },
    {
      "id": "mindmeld",
      "title": "mindmeld-with-fly",
      "creator": "Decentricity",
      "category": "Art",
      "repo": "https://github.com/Decentricity/mindmeld-with-fly",
      "description": "A terminal-rendered connectome reservoir with recording, replay, and a Muse EEG input path.",
      "note": "The README documents live Muse and synthetic-band inputs. Reservoir frequencies are properties of the digital model, not measurements of insect brain waves.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "EEG",
        "Terminal art"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": null,
      "repoBranch": "main"
    },
    {
      "id": "neurofly",
      "title": "NeuroFly",
      "creator": "seven-monarchs",
      "category": "Worlds",
      "repo": "https://github.com/seven-monarchs/NeuroFly",
      "description": "A brain-and-body simulation with split-screen views of navigation, neural activity, and a physical fly.",
      "note": "A personal research project built with FlyWire, Brian2, and NeuroMechFly. Its author explicitly notes that biological interpretations may be mistaken.",
      "dataset": "FlyWire",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Embodiment",
        "Simulation"
      ],
      "asset": "simulations/preview2.gif",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/neurofly.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/seven-monarchs/NeuroFly/main/simulations/preview2.gif",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from seven-monarchs’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 720
    },
    {
      "id": "webgpu-fly",
      "title": "WebGPU Fly",
      "creator": "abgnydn",
      "category": "Worlds",
      "repo": "https://github.com/abgnydn/webgpu-fly",
      "description": "A browser-based fly nervous-system experiment with brain, nerve-cord, and body simulation.",
      "note": "Combines FlyWire and MANC data through modeled interfaces. Requires WebGPU; the project inventories its approximations in a limitations document.",
      "dataset": "FlyWire + MANC",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "demo": "https://webgpu-fly.pages.dev/",
      "tags": [
        "Browser simulation",
        "WebGPU"
      ],
      "asset": "public/readme-hero.svg",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/webgpu-fly.svg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abgnydn/webgpu-fly/main/public/readme-hero.svg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from abgnydn’s repository"
    },
    {
      "id": "fruit-fly-lab",
      "title": "Fruit Fly Laboratory",
      "creator": "vaibhavkedarisetti",
      "category": "Worlds",
      "repo": "https://github.com/vaibhavkedarisetti/fruit-fly-lab",
      "description": "An interactive FlyWire simulation with modeled sensory stimuli and an inspectable escape pathway.",
      "note": "Uses the Shiu et al. spiking-model approach. The relationship between modeled descending activity and the digital body is an engineered interface.",
      "dataset": "FlyWire",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Escape circuit",
        "Simulation"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": null,
      "repoBranch": "main"
    },
    {
      "id": "axonweave",
      "title": "AxonWeave",
      "creator": "dhakalnirajan",
      "category": "Tools",
      "repo": "https://github.com/dhakalnirajan/axonweave",
      "description": "Use MaleCNS connectivity as a configurable layer inside a Python machine-learning model.",
      "note": "Provides NumPy/SciPy, PyTorch, and TensorFlow paths with explicit policies for signs, parameters, and backend execution. Source anatomy and computational interpretation remain separate.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Library",
        "Trainable layer"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": null,
      "repoBranch": "main"
    },
    {
      "id": "mps",
      "title": "MaleCNS on Apple MPS",
      "creator": "seohyunjun",
      "category": "Tools",
      "repo": "https://github.com/seohyunjun/mps-malecns-model",
      "description": "An experimental spiking simulator and 3D activity report designed for Apple Silicon GPUs.",
      "note": "Uses official MaleCNS data with separately implemented dynamics, signs, normalization, and stimuli. It is a stimulation experiment, not a validated behavioral model.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Apple Silicon",
        "Simulation"
      ],
      "asset": "docs/images/neural-activity-3d.png",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/mps.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/seohyunjun/mps-malecns-model/main/docs/images/neural-activity-3d.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from seohyunjun’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 771
    },
    {
      "id": "fastfly",
      "title": "FastFly",
      "creator": "eonfathom",
      "category": "Tools",
      "repo": "https://github.com/eonfathom/FastFly",
      "description": "A GPU simulator optimized for propagation through a sparse fruit-fly connectivity graph.",
      "note": "Targets real-time or faster execution on consumer NVIDIA hardware. Throughput goals and simplified neuron dynamics do not establish biological fidelity.",
      "dataset": "FlyWire",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "CUDA",
        "Simulator"
      ],
      "asset": "fruitfly.jpg",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/fastfly.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eonfathom/FastFly/main/fruitfly.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from eonfathom’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 536
    },
    {
      "id": "connectome-os",
      "title": "Connectome OS",
      "creator": "ruvnet",
      "category": "Tools",
      "repo": "https://github.com/ruvnet/Connectome-OS",
      "description": "A debugging dashboard for inspecting and controlling neural-circuit simulations.",
      "note": "The public website is a static interface. Live FlyWire activity requires the Rust backend running locally; opening the hosted dashboard alone does not start a brain.",
      "dataset": "FlyWire",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "demo": "https://ruvnet.github.io/Connectome-OS/",
      "tags": [
        "Brain viewer",
        "Rust"
      ],
      "asset": "docs/screenshots/connectome-os-full-flybrain.png",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/connectome-os.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ruvnet/Connectome-OS/main/docs/screenshots/connectome-os-full-flybrain.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from ruvnet’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 433
    },
    {
      "id": "chimera",
      "title": "CHIMERA",
      "creator": "caparison1234",
      "category": "Worlds",
      "repo": "https://github.com/caparison1234/chimera",
      "description": "A larval-connectome experiment with a MuJoCo body and a multilingual stimulus interface.",
      "note": "Uses a 1,373-neuron subset of larval connectivity. Qwen parses language into sensory channels; it is a different dataset and setup from adult MaleCNS demos.",
      "dataset": "Larval connectome",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Larva",
        "Embodiment"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": null,
      "repoBranch": "main"
    },
    {
      "id": "train-your-fly",
      "title": "train-your-fly",
      "creator": "Eudald Correig-Fraga & collaborators",
      "category": "Research",
      "repo": "https://github.com/eudald-seeslab/train-your-fly",
      "description": "Turn measured FlyWire connectivity and a compound-eye model into a trainable vision system.",
      "note": "The anatomical graph remains fixed while synaptic gains, optional thresholds, and a readout can be trained. Companion experiments compare real and randomized wiring.",
      "dataset": "FlyWire",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Vision",
        "Training"
      ],
      "asset": "docs/images/pipeline.png",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/train-your-fly.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eudald-seeslab/train-your-fly/main/docs/images/pipeline.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Eudald Correig-Fraga & collaborators’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 325
    },
    {
      "id": "eon-brain",
      "title": "Eon fly-brain",
      "creator": "Eon Systems",
      "category": "Research",
      "repo": "https://github.com/eonsystemspbc/fly-brain",
      "description": "A whole-brain spiking model with multiple computational backends and neuron activation/silencing experiments.",
      "note": "Builds on the FlyWire-based Shiu et al. model. It provides a simulation framework; the connection map does not supply every biological parameter.",
      "dataset": "FlyWire",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Brain model",
        "Simulation"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": null,
      "repoBranch": "main"
    },
    {
      "id": "flybody",
      "title": "flybody",
      "creator": "Google DeepMind + HHMI Janelia",
      "category": "Research",
      "repo": "https://github.com/TuragaLab/flybody",
      "description": "The anatomically detailed MuJoCo body behind many of the little digital flies on your feed.",
      "note": "A body model and reinforcement-learning platform. It provides mechanics and environments, not an automatically connected or uploaded brain.",
      "dataset": "Body model",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "demo": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09029-4",
      "tags": [
        "Foundation",
        "MuJoCo"
      ],
      "asset": "fly-white.png",
      "post": null,
      "image": "/images/flybody.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TuragaLab/flybody/main/fly-white.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Google DeepMind + HHMI Janelia’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 470
    },
    {
      "id": "neuromechfly",
      "title": "NeuroMechFly / FlyGym",
      "creator": "NeLy lab, EPFL",
      "category": "Research",
      "repo": "https://github.com/NeLy-EPFL/flygym",
      "description": "A platform for simulating embodied sensorimotor control with a detailed fly body and physics.",
      "note": "A scientific body/environment toolkit. It can host neural controllers, but using it alone does not imply a connectome-based controller.",
      "dataset": "Body model",
      "status": "Code available",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "demo": "https://neuromechfly.org/",
      "tags": [
        "Foundation",
        "Embodiment"
      ],
      "image": "/images/neuromechfly.jpg",
      "post": null,
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NeLy-EPFL/_media/main/flygym/banner_large.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from NeLy lab, EPFL’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 284
    },
    {
      "id": "malecns",
      "title": "MaleCNS",
      "creator": "FlyEM + Cambridge + MRC LMB + Google",
      "category": "Research",
      "repo": "https://github.com/janelia-flyem/male-cns",
      "description": "The central resource behind the September wave: an adult male fly’s brain and ventral nerve cord, mapped at synapse resolution.",
      "note": "The official site dates v1.0 to June 8, 2026 and the Cell paper to September 3. Counts depend on filtering: synaptic contacts and directed neuron-pair edges are different quantities.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Research resource",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "demo": "https://male-cns.janelia.org/",
      "tags": [
        "Foundation",
        "Dataset"
      ],
      "post": "https://x.com/NewsFromGoogle/status/2095553014715093022",
      "image": "/images/malecns.jpg",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "handle": "NewsFromGoogle",
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HRTlPKUWAAQ7xm3?format=jpg&name=medium",
      "imageCredit": "Google Research / HHMI Janelia and collaborators · original announcement",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 595
    },
    {
      "id": "celltype",
      "title": "MaleCNS Cell Type Explorer",
      "creator": "Reiser lab + collaborators",
      "category": "Research",
      "repo": "https://github.com/reiserlab/celltype-explorer-drosophila-male-cns",
      "description": "Look up neuron types, connectivity, anatomical distributions, and morphology in the male nervous system.",
      "note": "An atlas and query interface for the reconstructed data, not a neural simulation.",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Research resource",
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "tags": [
        "Atlas",
        "Dataset"
      ],
      "post": null,
      "image": null,
      "repoBranch": "main"
    },
    {
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "image": "/images/neural-canvas.jpg",
      "id": "neural-canvas",
      "title": "Neural Canvas",
      "creator": "Xenova",
      "category": "Worlds",
      "repo": "https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/fruit-fly-simulation/tree/main",
      "demo": "https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/fruit-fly-simulation",
      "description": "Paint the neurons, release to stimulate, and watch an articulated fly respond—all in your browser.",
      "note": "Uses retained MaleCNS connectivity and a simplified spiking model. Neural rates drive crafted body animations; there is no muscle, contact, or aerodynamic simulation and no body-to-brain sensory feedback.",
      "tags": [
        "Playable",
        "WebGPU"
      ],
      "imageSource": "https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/61b253b7ac5ecaae3d1efe0c/0V_xp6SNzo4Hovk1KH63I.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Xenova’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 525
    },
    {
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "image": "/images/abijah-fly.jpg",
      "id": "abijah-fly",
      "title": "Fruit Fly Brain Research",
      "creator": "AbijahKaj",
      "category": "Research",
      "repo": "https://github.com/AbijahKaj/fruit-fly-brain-research",
      "description": "Explore how a modeled compound eye and an optic-lobe network can turn a rendered scene into flight-related signals.",
      "note": "A browser research workspace with a selected MaleCNS visual pathway and simplified dynamics. The body, visual inputs, and motor mappings are explicit modeling choices.",
      "tags": [
        "Vision",
        "Browser simulation"
      ],
      "asset": "docs/how-it-works.png",
      "imageSource": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AbijahKaj/fruit-fly-brain-research/main/docs/how-it-works.png",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from AbijahKaj’s repository",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 540
    },
    {
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "dataset": "Unspecified",
      "status": "Creator demo",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "image": "/images/supabase.jpg",
      "id": "supabase",
      "title": "The database-deploying fly",
      "creator": "Supabase",
      "category": "Culture",
      "repo": null,
      "post": "https://x.com/supabase/status/2097999894632149229",
      "description": "The fly joins the developer tools crowd in Supabase’s miniature database-deployment video.",
      "note": "A brand-posted creator demo. No reproducible implementation or independent evaluation was located in the reviewed post; it is included as part of the cultural wave.",
      "tags": [
        "Databases",
        "Viral demo"
      ],
      "imageSource": "https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2097999302132215808/img/BUaj-6hPuDeKMFb-.jpg",
      "imageCredit": "Preview from Supabase’s project post",
      "imageWidth": 960,
      "imageHeight": 540
    },
    {
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "dataset": "MaleCNS",
      "status": "Code available",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "image": null,
      "id": "flycoin",
      "title": "flycoinrh",
      "creator": "fruitflydev",
      "category": "Trading",
      "repo": "https://github.com/fruitflydev/flycoinrh",
      "description": "A MaleCNS-derived controller mapped to browser actions for a token launchpad, with a separate web-roaming mode.",
      "note": "The repository documents engineered cursor mappings, browser automation, and transaction workflows. Inclusion records the project, not an endorsement of its tokens or an independently verified financial result.",
      "tags": [
        "Browser control",
        "Token experiment"
      ]
    },
    {
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "dataset": "FlyWire",
      "status": "Research resource",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "image": null,
      "id": "flywire",
      "title": "FlyWire / Codex",
      "creator": "FlyWire Consortium",
      "category": "Research",
      "repo": null,
      "demo": "https://flywire.ai/",
      "description": "The adult female brain connectome and the explorer used to inspect its neurons, annotations, and connections.",
      "note": "The 2024 flagship resource contains 139,255 proofread neurons. This is a different specimen and dataset from the adult male MaleCNS reconstruction.",
      "tags": [
        "Foundation",
        "Dataset"
      ]
    },
    {
      "checked": "2026-09-16",
      "dataset": "FlyWire",
      "status": "Research resource",
      "repoBranch": "main",
      "image": null,
      "id": "shiu-model",
      "title": "The Shiu brain model",
      "creator": "Philip K. Shiu & collaborators",
      "category": "Research",
      "repo": null,
      "demo": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07763-9",
      "description": "The 2024 computational study behind many of the scene’s simplified whole-brain spiking simulations.",
      "note": "The study modeled sensorimotor circuits and experimentally tested feeding and grooming predictions. That validation does not automatically transfer to downstream game, trading, or body-control adaptations.",
      "tags": [
        "Foundation",
        "Scientific paper"
      ]
    }
  ]
}