Pocket Code vs Mushka

Create, play, and share your own games, animations, interactive art, music videos, and many other kinds of apps, directly on your iPhone! Pocket Code is ideally suited for the Hour of Code during the Computer Science Education Week http://csedweek.org/ organized by code.org, the European Code Week http://codeweek.eu/ as well as other similar initiatives. Catrobat is a visual programming system and a free open source non-profit project. Catrobat and the software developed by the Catrobat team are inspired by the work of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab.

Meet Mushka, a fruit fly that lives on your table in AR — and whose behaviour comes from a simulation of a real fly's nervous system. Scientists have mapped every neuron and every connection of a fruit fly's central nervous system. Mushka runs a simplified simulation of that wiring diagram right on your iPhone: 164,606 neurons and millions of connections, spiking in real time. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Place her on any real table with your camera. • Tap to drop sugar — she walks over, tastes it with her feet, and her proboscis extends. That decision comes from her simulated taste neurons reaching the proboscis motor neuron. • Swipe your hand at her — her looming-detector neurons fire, the giant fiber escape neuron spikes, and she jumps away from your hand. On iPhones with LiDAR your real hand is the stimulus. • Watch her brain: every neuron is a dot at its real position; every flash is a spike. • Record a clip — it goes straight to your Photos. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IS REAL • Brain decides: feeding, escape, turning towards moving things — each checked against controls. • Animation: the way she walks, her gait, how far a jump carries her. The app labels which is which. • This is a simplified simulation of a wiring diagram. It is not a living fly and not an uploaded mind.