Original Summary

Hey HN, I&#x27;m Cory. When I saw Google release the fruit fly connectome, I wanted to experiment with it myself and better understand how the fruit fly brain works, so I started hacking on a few different iOS projects.<p>Originally I was going to create an app that let you experience BEING a fruit fly with VR, but then I realized that a fruit fly&#x27;s main sense is its smell, and an iPhone can&#x27;t smell. So I ended up building an app based on all of the senses an iPhone has that we could wire to a fruit fly. I came up with flyOS: basically the camera is its eyes, the CPU is its brain, etc. The neuron simulator is written from scratch in Swift and runs in real time on the phone&#x27;s CPU, with no server involved.<p>Yes, this is partly a joke. But it&#x27;s also a serious app that lets you view the neurons of a simulated fly in real time, which I think is pretty cool. I wrote a white paper and put it online to share the process of building this, and why I ultimately only ended up using 4,895 neurons out of the total 166,000 in the release.<p>Would love your feedback and thoughts as to how I could make the fly even more realistic and alive.

  • 情报分类：硬件与数码
  • 分类依据：内容涉及硬件、数码产品或通信卡
  • 信息来源：Hacker News 新项目
  • 发布时间：2026/9/22 00:34:11