To our dear Maple & Maple Mini users,
It has come to our attention that "LeafLabs Maple Minis" are being sold on AliExpress. Please be aware that although they say "LeafLabs" on them, they are not made by LeafLabs. The Maple line was discontinued in March 2015. That said, the forum is still going strong and the designs are available on Upverter.
Yours truly,
LeafLabs
A few memories of our team cooking class last month at Shiso Kitchen.
The LeafLabs team before dividing in half for an all out cooking brawl/mandatory fun
Nick and Chris having never separated egg yolks before compete in a test of speed and agility.
At Shiso Kitchen we learned a trick for separating yolks: dump the egg in your hand and strain the whites through your fingers. It was very messy and very amusing.
Eggs separated: time to whisk!
Team effort cream pour
Marti loses graciously to whisking champion Jess
Knife Skills: Neuro vs Ara with Justin and Eli!
Knife Skills: G & A showdown (guess who won...)
Rin and Sara in the Risotto-Stir Intern Face-Off
Meal success: salmon en papillote and risotto milanese with saffron
Dessert: coconut pudding with mango and toasted coconut
Cheers!
Mandatory fun completed!
Eco is the new spin-out from LeafLabs. To learn more visit www.ecoinc.co, email info@ecoinc.co, or participate in the Eco Survey.
In case you can't get-- enough here are a few more links:
Forbes: "Here's What Was Significant At Google I/O 2015"
Gizmodo: "Project Ara Update: Still Not Available, But Looking Cooler Than Ever"
TechCrunch: "Google’s Ara Modular Phone Takes A Real Photo From A Snap-In Camera"
Digital Trends: "Say Cheese! Project Ara takes its first public photo at Google I/O 2015"
Android Authority: "Project Ara put together on stage, shown off as fully working"
Today at Google I/O Rafa Camargo from Google booted and took pictures with the Project Ara modular phone. There was much rejoicing (both in the auditorium and here in the office). Read more here on the The Verge. More to come....so much more.
Upverter: "We're on a mission to make hardware less hard; to empower engineers by equipping them with world-class technology, knowledge, and support.
We are making every step of hardware design approachable, pleasant, and productive.
We believe the tools should fade into the background, freeing engineers to be truly creative."
And now, Maple and Maple Mini designs are available on Upverter! Easily bake stm32 and libmaple into your next project. You can find the interactive designs at the following link: https://upverter.com/LeafLabs/ (both the Maple and the Maple Mini).
Our very own Marti Bolivar, firmware lead for Google's Project Ara, talks about Project Ara and LeafLabs. Link here to the Slashdot interview.
New home!
With the arrival of our new team members Mitch and Nick back in January our space was starting to feel a little snug. After some lightning fast moving and renovations we find ourselves still in our beloved Industry Lab just on a different floor with lots of room for us to grow! Some pictures of the move and our new space.
Mid move...
The time has come for LeafLabs to officially end-of-life the Maple product line. We know this will come as disappointing news for many of you, but the STM32 market these days is full of other options for the intrepid developer, and we can’t justify the resources necessary to support Maple in the way it and the community deserve.
As always, the design files for Maple and Maple Mini will remain available on GitHub, under a CC-BY-SA 2.0 license, for anyone who wants to recreate or reimagine these boards. libmaple will also stay on GitHub, and we will continue to take community patches. We will continue hosting the forums and the docs as well.
We here at LeafLabs sincerely appreciate all the time, effort, enthusiasm, and creativity you guys have contributed to Maple over the past five years. It’s been a great run, folks.
Keep on hacking.
The LeafLabs team trudged through the snow last week to make it to X-Fair at MIT. Here are a few photos of the fun!
Chris and Nick talking to students
Jess
arti with Ara phone prototypes
Courtesy of Mitch!
(much of) the Project Ara firmware team hard at work
elatin with osmanthus petals
Team in transit
Workbench with phone prototypes
Look at what the stork brought to the LeafLabs office: a pair of Project Ara's prototype modular cellphones. LeafLabs has been working with Google on Project Ara to develop this revolutionary modular smartphone.
Pieces in
Pieces out
Jess & Andrew with Willow at SFN
LeafLabs will be attending the 2015 xFair at MIT (February 2, 2015, 10am-4pm / Rockwell Cage). We will demo Willow, our 1000 channel data acquisition system for neurophysiology, developed in partnership with Ed Boyden at the MIT Synthetic Neurobiology Group. We will also talk about our part in Google's Project Ara (maybe even have phone to show).
Marti presenting at DevCon2
This past week Marti and Andrew traveled to Mountain View, CA and Singapore for the Project Ara Developers Conference, where Marti presented on the UniPro network. For more images and links check out GoogleATAP.
Between events
LeafLabs' Marti Bolivar will be presenting today (1/14/15) at the Project Ara DevCon2 in Mountain View, CA. Livestream here!
LeafLabs recently exhibited the Willow System at the Society for Neuroscience's Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Our collaborators at the Ed Boyden Lab were there as well with the following posters:
Boyden, E.S. : 655.19-Tu & 659.03-Tu
Kinney, J.P. : 659.05-Tu
Moore-Kochlacs: 659.05-Tu
Scholvin, J.S. : 659.03-Tu, 659.05-Tu
Also at SFN were our friends at Intan and Kendall Research Systems. Research for Willow is supported by the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R43MH101943. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
Jess and Andrew at the LeafLabs booth
Willow traveling cases
hris assembling Willow
he Willow System (probes in cases)
Jess + Oculus Rift
Check out Google's latest media push for Project Ara, which LeafLabs has been working on for over a year.
WiredLeaf GUI software with live visualization of real-time capture on a per-channel basis
LeafLabs has been awarded an Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to continue our work with WiredLeaf. We will be collaborating with Edward Boyden, PHD at MIT's Synthetic Neurobiology Group.
One of my favorite python development tools is RunSnakeRun, which is a GUI for visualizing profiling information. I usually use it to track down what's making a script run slow: the tool draws nexted blocks with a surface area roughly proportional to the time spent in a given function. In the above screenshot I learned that the python library for Google'sProtocol Buffers serialization format were the bottle neck for an experiment we were doing. We were sort of expecting networking or disk I/O to be the bottleneck, but with these libraries it was the CPU. The compiled C libraries are much faster!
The Python interpreter actually has the profiling code built in ("cProfile"), and runsnakerun is just a GUI for analysing the dump files. The commands I usually use to capture a dump and then visualize with runsnakerun are something like:
$ python -m cProfile -o ./dump.profile myscript.py --script-option blah $ # run to completion or Ctrl-C, then $ runsnakerun ./dump.profile
You can get install runsnakerun from the debian package repos (probably ubuntu also); details and installation instructions for other operating systems are avalable from the website.
