http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=200 200 Good communication is key to a well-run company. http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=195 195 With a new circuit design, we feed our first spikes into the XO! We are still working with the folks in Boston to debug the recording issues. Stay tuned. http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=198 198 Evan, a local high school student, joins our team to help with the XO interface and circuit building. Notice our home workshop has expanded! http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=193 193 A combination of fancy printing technology while trying to stay true to our low-fidelity roots http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=190 190 From our friends at the "One Labtop per Child" Project. With our SpikerBox and the OLPC, you now have a complete solution for inexpensive spikes. http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=182 182 Backyard Brains goes Hollywood. ByB getting a plug on the University of Michigan's homepage. http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=187 187 We get primo office space in downtown Ann Arbor. We move in with some electronics parts catalogs from Mouser and Digikey, and a microwave. That's all you need... http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=184 184 A lunch meeting with our local Business Mentor Gerry Roston. Greg suddenly feels a strange desire to work on Surface Mounts and EagleCAD. http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=179 179 Tim and Greg arrive with their respective transports to their weekly meeting place on South University http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=176 176 Invention Disclosure to UM Tech Transfer Office http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=170 170 Our potential future shared office space, in the basement of the Google building on Liberty Street http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=174 174 Waiting for our friend Jason, while the smell of townie indulgence wafts around the corner... http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=172 172 We had a meeting with a local start-up about sharing office space. He told us to meet him in the famous graffiti alley... http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=164 164 In his day job, Tim (in blue shirt) teaches scientists how to do neurophysiology...expensively http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=161 161 At our usual business meeting center, we submit our abstract to this year's Society for Neuroscience conference in Chicago. See you in October! http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=152 152 Joseph Krajcik, Professor of Science Education at the University, examines our device and gives us advice. Thanks Joseph! http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=149 149 Backyard Brains chooses Mike and TCF Bank for financial transactions. http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=127 127 On display in a Kerrytown coffeeshop http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=130 130 Douglas Wathen thinking deeply about patents http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=142 142 Our friends sorting the live from the dead cockroaches on our latest shipment. http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=139 139 Our mentors told us we need more professional business cards. We finally listened... http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=121 121 Passers-by enjoy visiting with the cockroaches http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=96 96 A Cockroach Instar who has given up one of its legs for science http://pics.backyardbrains.com/main.php?g2_itemId=119 119 Sponsored by UM Engineering