flymaxxing.An internet collection by stainlu
The fly renaissance · September 2026

Small brain.
Big internet.

A collection of things people are making with fruit fly brains. The games, the experiments, and the beautifully absurd.

Wait, why is everyone building with flies?
65 projects & experiments

A $100 portfolio. One very small trader. Bitcoin charts become neural inputs; a fixed readout proposes buy, sell, or hold.

AWAlex Wormuth

The internet’s favorite question, answered with a fly: can it run Doom? Game frames enter the modeled eyes; spikes become controls.

AWAlex Wormuth

Give the fly a PDF. This experiment turns individual printed characters into neural activity and reads them back out as text.

JLJerry Liu

Mario gets a very unusual controller: a MaleCNS model receiving views from inside Super Mario 64.

JPJessica Paquette

Talk to the fly. A frozen language model gets a small, trained adapter that reads activity from the fly’s connectivity graph.

AWAlex Wormuth

An intervention in courtship-related circuitry, visualized with a small fly and recorded neural activity.

NCNico Christie

Catch it if you can. A browser arcade game that lets you peek into the circuit behind a fly’s escape response.

Hhrook1

The Chrome dinosaur gets an 80-neuron controller. Watch the circuit react as the obstacles approach.

MCMert Cobanov

A first-person horror prototype: find the key while a fly-linked system influences the room’s events.

Ffurkancak1r

An arcade-style control panel for stimulating named neuron populations and watching modeled activity spread.

NNullLabTests

A brain-and-body simulation with split-screen views of navigation, neural activity, and a physical fly.

Sseven-monarchs

The anatomically detailed MuJoCo body behind many of the little digital flies on your feed.

GDGoogle DeepMind + HHMI Janelia

The central resource behind the September wave: an adult male fly’s brain and ventral nerve cord, mapped at synapse resolution.

F+FlyEM + Cambridge + MRC LMB + Google
65 rabbit holes. One very small organism.
Every entry links to its source. How this collection is curated