The board also supports wifi via an included antenna port and connects to your projects via a JEDEC DDR2 SODIMM connector. It starts at $25 for the base model and $90 for the tricked-out version.

Dr. Lindsay Allen was sitting in a booth at Maker Faire, the annual gathering where 70,000-some hackers and tinkerers display their projects, wearing a blue cap stuffed with electrodes. Her brain ...

The project developed a computational model of a part of the brain responsible for motor decision-making. This was guided by brain experiments during animal behaviour.

Other IBM brain simulations, like the massive Blue Brain Project, can mimic brain spatial structure and connectivity–but they can’t mimic how this structure is tied to behavior, Eliasmith ...