Brain Day

Wabash College Psychology Department held "Brain Day" on Saturday at the Carnegie Museum in Crawfordsville.  We had never been to this little gem, but Camden wanted to check it out.  It was not that grand of an event, but there were a few cool things to test out.

Camden made a cockroach's leg twitch using electronic stimulation.

This was the first 3-D printer I had ever seen.  It was printing a green brain to match the red and blue ones that it  had done earlier.

The next station was a robotic cockroach.  The department had implanted devices so that, when the jump drive was attached to the cockroach, you could control the direction it crawled by swiping on an I-phone.

Camden's favorite activity was the prism glasses.  It made it almost impossible to throw, walk, see straight.  Your brain would think you were throwing the bean bag straight ahead at the cornhole board, but you actually were throwing about 45 degrees to the left.