Hello all,
My name is Jonathan Toomim. I'm a neuroscientist, electrical engineer,
programmer (with a strong preference for python), and entrepreneur. I'll
be moving from San Francisco to Bangalore on February 11th/12th. I have
never been to India before, so I will probably be rather bewildered and
lost in the city initially. If anyone felt like helping me get situated,
showing me around, or introducing me to relevant people or groups, I
would be grateful. I'm on a modest budget, so I'd rather not waste time
and money by being unnecessarily logistically inefficient out of ignorance.
In particular, I'll be looking for a place to do work. In California, I
spend a lot of time at hackerspaces, especially Noisebridge
<https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge>, Crash Space
<http://blog.crashspace.org/>, and Nullspace <http://032.la/>. I like
working there because (a) I'm more motivated and productive than if I
stay at home, and (b) much of my work requires or is facilitated by
having easy access to soldering irons, oscilloscopes, dissection
microscopes, laser cutters, and the like. I was hoping to find someplace
similar in Bangalore. I've found the website for Jaaga
<http://www.jaaga.in/>, and they look like they might be close, but they
appear to have more of a focus on arts and crafts and less of a focus on
tech than I would like. Does anyone have any experience with Jaaga? If
so, what's your impression of the place? Does anyone know of any other
places I might find appropriate?
I'm bringing two python-related projects with me. Once I'm settled in,
if funding holds up, I will be looking to hire a couple of coders, one
for each project.
One of them is Brain Workshop <http://brainworkshop.net/>, a popular
open source (GPL2) brain-training program based on the dual n-back task
<http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/04/25/0801268105.abstract>,
written (inelegantly) in python and using pyglet for graphics and sound.
The other is my company HEG Research (which is currently comprised of
one person: me), which makes and sells systems for near-infrared
hemoencephalography neurofeedback
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemoencephalography> (or HEG for short).
HEG is where an instrument measures brain activity (as indicated by
cerebral blood oxygenation, measured optically), and the subject is
given real-time feedback, which s/he uses in order to learn to increase
that activity. The software I use (and wrote) to provide the feedback
and record the data is HEGStudio <http://hegstudio.sourceforge.net/>. It
is also open source (LGPL) and developed in python, though the hardware
you need in order for it to be of use is neither.
I look forward to meeting you all.
Jonathan
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