We made our triumphant return to Shiso Kitchen, for another great cooking class, for our most recent team activity! On the menu, we had eggplant, potato, tomato, and white bean plaki, Mediterranean couscous, shrimp and mushroom skewers, and cinnamon sugar phyllo cups filled with mixed berries. Needless to say, it was delicious. Not only that but we all had a lot of fun together. Team activity success!

Every now and then, LeafLabs has the pleasure of participating in outreach activities, giving back and engaging with the broader community. In the past, we’ve sponsored robotics competitions and volunteered at hackathons. This year, we decided to take advantage of MIT’s Independent Activities Period, to teach a class on something we’re passionate about: computer music.

Of all the organs in the human body, perhaps the most difficult to study is the brain, owing to its dazzling complexity and its isolation from the rest of the body afforded by the protective skull and blood-brain barrier. So imagine if a miniature copy of a brain could be grown in a dish from stem cells in the body. With such a technology, the possibilities seem endless for understanding brain diseases and for developing therapeutics quickly.

Maple was mentioned on  Hackaday! Check it out and see what they had to say in their "The $2 32-Bit Arduino (With Debugging)" post.