Week 7: Neuromorphic Circuits

Protocol

For this section, I had to first download Neuromorphic Wizard, which was a whole process but I managed. I just filled out the Genetic Circuit Design Template with a design of my choice: My group mates decided to do something pretty similar, so we went with the same overall ERN and ERN_rec_ERNs. These were the predictions and experimental set-up that Neuromorphic Wizard came up with.

I will say overall this was one of the more conceptually difficult labs for me. I think overall, I could understand the general flow that X1 and X2 were some input, and the colors were to help track these ERNs and ERN_rec_ERNs, but I think it was difficult for me to intuitively choose a pattern and then fill in the template based on what I want my pattern to be. So instead, I worked the unconventional way as I felt I had a solid enough understanding and what I wanted to focus on was hte product.

In the future, it is something I would like to learn about, but I don’t know that I have the capacity to do so given my lack of computer science background.

Running the Robot

These are some photos from watching the robot run:

Running the Robot

I didn’t know we were supposed to do Low, Medium, High (?), or at least that part was not clear to me. Here is what came out of our experiment.