WS–01 / NEURAL INTERFACE STARTUP01 / 05

Brain–machine fruit fly

Give the fly
a wick to see.

A physical Drosophila receives chart light through its compound eye. A head electrode carries the response into a local paper-action interface.

Instrumented Drosophila fruit flyA recognizable fruit fly with compound eye, antennae, two wings, six legs, a head electrode, optic-lobe trace, and brain-computer interface cable.
Wickspeck

Brain–machine fruit-fly bench / local model

The fly sees the wick.

A physical Drosophila is the operator. Chart light enters its compound eye; the reduced brain interface converts labeled neural activity into a paper-only motor vote.

01 / INSTRUMENTED SPECIMENACQUIRING
Instrumented Drosophila fruit flyA recognizable fruit fly with compound eye, antennae, two wings, six legs, a head electrode, optic-lobe trace, and brain-computer interface cable.
HEAD ELECTRODEOPTIC-LOBE TRACE6 LEGS / 2 WINGSDROSOPHILA BODY
02 / VISUAL STIMULUS01 / 24
Candlestick luminance stimulus

Rejection shadows. The withheld bar is a small fade.

03 / EYE → BRAIN BUS24 OF 892 COLUMNS
04 / DESCENDING OUTPUT—
Paper motor voteWAIT0 recent spikes / 60 cells
  1. DNa01BUYForward walking0
  2. DNp09HOLDStopping / freeze0
  3. MDNSELLMoonwalker / reverse0
  4. DNa02BIASLeft versus right0

Local sensory pass and paper record work now. Brokerage, wallet signing, and on-chain settlement do not.

METHOD / 05

No metaphor hiding the animal

A fly, a wire, a deliberately reduced nervous system.

01

Compound eye

Twenty-four local columns sample the candle field as luminance. Text has no semantic meaning to the model.

02

Brain interface

L1 and L2 channels feed a reduced optic path. The drawn head electrode makes the machine connection explicit.

03

Motor vote

DNa01, DNp09, and MDN are mapped by this demo to buy, hold, and sell. That mapping is human-made.

04

Paper record

You confirm the vote before a local $10-notional line is written. Nothing reaches a broker or chain.

Local paper record / this browser

The fly can leave a trace. It cannot place a trade.

Each confirmed motor vote settles against one withheld example bar. The ledger lives in local storage and halts after $20 cumulative paper loss.

0 records0.00 paper P&L$10 max notion
No paper trace yet. Run the eye, then confirm its motor vote.

Honesty plate

What is real here?

REAL / LOCAL Selectable stimuli, reduced neural simulation, visible cell activity, motor votes, and a persistent paper ledger.

INTERPRETIVE The BUY / HOLD / SELL mapping is a human interface choice, not a scientific claim about fly intent.

REDUCED 60 labeled cells are modeled here versus 165,122 public neurons and about 10.2M connections in the cited dataset.

SOON Live feeds, brokerage, wallet signatures, contracts, and on-chain settlement remain unbuilt.

HHMI Janelia FlyEM male Drosophila CNS, 2026, CC-BY.