Backyard Brains on Make: Live ep13

Greg Gage from Backyard Brains demonstrates their SpikerBox kit, which lets you experiment with cockroach neurons. Becky and Greg surgically remove a cockroach leg and listen to the neurons firing. This is an archived clip from Make: Live, which was originally broadcasted on 7/29/11. Go to http://makezine.com/​live/​ for information about the show, chat transcripts, and details on the next show.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Backyard Brains
• Greg Gage
• Spiker Box
• neuroscience
• cockroach
• Becky Stern
• Make
• Makezine
• DIY
• Make: Live
• science

[bigchad007]

Comment Pending Approval! On Obama Video.. Great Censorship, I just lost all respect for your company.

[makemagazine]

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[theemuka]

why didn't they zoom in on it..

[EazyslashD]

Nice way of interviewing,

Sitting and wearing sunglasses

[havocdaemon]

She didn't need to tell me to look at her knees... for the first half of this video I wasn't paying any attention at all to the science. :(

[alfonsoskid]

uhmm i can do the same circuit that makes static noises when you touch the wire with a piece of paper BUT without the cockroach leg :3 , Maybe it's a good a idea to show some proof that you can't get that specific noise by other means without hooking the cockroach's leg. anybody who worked with 1000x amps could tell you "even pliers makes those noises".

[stephen1475]

that is very vary cool!! 

[heldgop]

ice....check

knive.....check

cockroach....NOT

can i use my sisters leg too? im sure it will grow back too, wont it?

[GraSt036]

we can see so many in this video.. (fail)

[CDJSnede]

Becky, and that other guy, completely ruined this channel

[EnavSounds]

@EazyslashD this friking kids doing garbage comments all over the places

[AndroidDevil]

@XXflapjaxXX Really, thats sad.