SpikeCalls/FlyDrones
A fruit fly connectome as a drone pilot. Camera -> fly eyes -> spiking brain -> descending neurons -> drone. Live 3D demo in your browser.
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A fruit fly's wiring diagram is flying this drone. Recorded from the live browser demo: the swat game. Simulation running MiniFly, see the honest part. Open palm, it climbs. Fist, it holds. Drop your hand, it comes down. Rush at the camera, the giant fiber fires and it escapes. The brain never gets a "climb" command. It gets an optic-flow illusion, and its own reflexes do the rest. In 2026 the complete central nervous system of a male fruit fly was published: MaleCNS v1.0, about 166,000 neurons reconstructed by HHMI Janelia, Cambridge, MRC LMB and Google Research, free under CC-BY. People have plugged it into DOOM, Mario, trading bots and walking robots. FlyDrones gives it wings. It turns a drone camera (or your hand in front of a webcam) into activity on the fly's own visual neurons, runs the connectome as a spiking network, and reads out the…
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- Try it in 10 seconds
- The honest part
- Quick start
- How it works
- Gestures
- Plug in a real drone
- Use the real connectome
- One fly, three pilots
- Performance
- Repository map
- Safety
- Roadmap
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What this repository does
A fruit fly connectome as a drone pilot. Camera -> fly eyes -> spiking brain -> descending neurons -> drone. Live 3D demo in your browser.
Repository facts
- Owner
- SpikeCalls
- Primary language
- Python
- Stars
- 213
- Forks
- 49
- Open issues + pull requests
- 0
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-09-15T20:52:47.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-16T06:18:25.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: ardupilot, betaflight, brain-simulation, computational-neuroscience, connectome, crazyflie, drone, drosophila, fruit-fly, malecns, neuroscience, python, robotics, spiking-neural-network, tello
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