NERP is not exclusively Raspberry Pi, the small computer and embedded systems interest group at Pumping Station:One in Chicago. NERP meets every other Monday at 7pm at Pumping Station:One, 3519 N. Elston Ave. in Chicago.
Tucker Tomlinson is a familiar face around the shops at Pumping Station One. He’s also a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Laboratory of Lee Miller in the Department of Physiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Tucker’s work in the Limb Motor Control Lab* focuses on neural interfaces for advanced prosthetics.
Data acquisition systems used to record neuron activity typically work with lots of channels of analog-to-digital converters that measure tiny voltages and currents very fast. In Tucker’s words:
“I’ll be discussing the problem of recording directly from neurons in the brains of monkeys and humans. There will be a few slides and videos to help describe the basic science and technical challenges that we face when tackling this problem, but the session will be mostly informal discussion driven by whatever the audience finds interesting.”
* the phrase “motor control” means eye-hand-brain, not steppers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_control
NERP is not exclusively Raspberry Pi, the small computer and embedded systems interest group at Pumping Station:One in Chicago. NERP meets every other Monday at 7pm at Pumping Station:One, 3519 N. Elston Ave. in Chicago.
Find NERP and Pumping Station:One at
http://www.meetup.com/NERP-Not-Exclusively-Raspberry-Pi/
and
https://pumpingstationone.org/
Doors open at 6:30pm.
NERP is free and open to the public.
Ed Bennett ed @ kinetics and electronics com
Tags: electronics, embedded, NERP, Open Source,
raspberry pi, hackerspace, Beagle Bone, Element14, Pumping Station One
