Hey Lisa and David!

I’m reaching out regarding a project that you might be interested in.

Previously I applied on Manifold for a grant for programming a phone to track GPS on a solar powered TuckTuck with Solar4Africa, and over the past three months, I’ve been working with a team to develop a novel Electroencephalogram.

Our team is called Monolith BCI (on Twitter), and we are creating a novel PCB design and ML model to process electrical signals generated by large clumps of neurons in the brain with an EEG. Henry is working on the ML model (Bramble), as well as a bunch of parts of the project, Cheru and JC designed the PCB with 0 PCB experience before this project. I’m creating a research paper, and dataset (FLUX- the Framework for Learning and Understanding Cortex Activity) to help fine-tune our LLM model.

We’ll be in SF for our 3rd sprint from Feb 24th-March 4th and would love to chat. We have a working v2.0 of our PCB (Trillium) which has 8 channels. By the end of our 3rd sprint goal is to have our own PCB working with our ML model to play Tetris and Pong without using EMG signals (we’ve already successfully used four modalities- jaw clench, blinking, focus, and non-focus), but all of these rely on EMG signals, and our product will only be viable once we’re able to capture thoughts alone- but we believe we’re really close to getting there.

Let us know if you’d like to chat!

-Monolith MMI (mind-machine interfaces)

Thank you Austin!! I look forward to sharing results, thank you for funding my work.

Hi Rachel, this is all really helpful advice. I will incorporate this into future funding requests that I make both here- and for other applications.

• I will use keyboard shortcuts next time I create a post to highlight important details.

• Here is the page from Solar4Africa (I was working on Project #3- that specifically highlights the connection between the software and the hardware).

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  Project Description: Solar4Africa.org distributes small solar cars in rural Malawi and subsidizes rural villages which lease the vehicles and use them for local transportation services.  To collect donations to help subsidize solar car use, data on vehicle use and operation needs to be collected, preferably in real time.

  It is therefore desirable to have a cell phone that can be placed in the vehicle that can collect location and usage data in Malawi and that can be periodically called from the US for data downloads.

  Project Tasks: Given an unlocked android phone, the phone needs to be configured and/or programmed to continuously collect and store location data. Develop software with appropriate security features that allows the phone to be called to initiate and execute a data download. The solution cannot assume a regular internet connection or continuous cell service for the location monitoring phone. The solution should minimize cost, maximize simplicity, and should not assume availability or access to specific third-party software.

• Thank you both for you support and I will post an update with project progress and the app demo once complete. I look forward to continue working on this project!