My First Neuron

See the official My First Neuron page for full, up-to-date details.

My First Neuron is a toy "neural" system designed for teaching and play. The goal is to teach kids something about neural processing, and possibly make them think that neurons are "cool". It features:

Neuron - with excitatory and inhibitory synapses
Hair cell - provides spikes to other cells
Muscle - twitches when it receives a spike

The neuron features an audible piezo buzzer for indicating spiking activity and an LED bar graph for showing the internal membrane potential. It can store multiple user-programmable neuron models simultaneously. Cell parameters can be adjusted at runtime via a set of dials.