It's a big day for
@neurosity
! Our Wefunder campaign is a dream turning into reality. A year in the making, and thanks to our fantastic community, we're already smashing goals! 🚀 Join us on this journey and be part of our story. Invest now 👉
As of 2017, Black programmers made up only 4.6% of computer programmers in the US. For
#HowIFocusFriday
, our team is focusing on increasing this percentage. Here are organizations that actively support Black coders.
Success!
@neurosity
has been accepted into the
@nvidia
Inception Program, which will fast-track the development of our EEG foundational model. It's time to build!
Waking up to this… 🤯🚀
Although the headline is catchy, we see ourselves working alongside Neuralink, not in competition, to better improve people's lives through Neurotechnology. Here's to our
@Neurosity
community continuously pushing boundaries 🚀
I have depression.
And just because I have depression does not mean I'm any less lovable, investable, or any -able.
A part of me refuses to die, and this part knows I can turn my pain into something positive for others.
This is my creed, purpose, momentum, gravity, and rope…
My own brainwave recorded by my own
@neurosity
hardware. It’s my first tattoo! I’ve wanted this tattoo for years but it had to be recorded with hardware I built. I’m proud. The brainwave was eyes closed focusing on the present.
Brain controlled computing isn't reserved for sci-fi anymore...
What if...
📲 Your brain could control external devices
🎨 Your brain could create art
🧠 Your brain could enter a concentration flow state
Welcome to Neurosity. Want to know more? DM me!
Turned 30 yesterday! Feeling excited for the next decade and grateful for the last! Thanks to everyone who found their way into my life, I’m so lucky to have amazing friends, family, customers, investors, and more! I love you all!
I moved back into my parents basement... couldn’t risk staying in NYC with my asthma. I moved everything needed to build+reflow PCBs, compile embedded Linux builds with 16-core PC, and run
@neurosity
from my Mac Book Pro.
Crown in glossy white for
@Grimezsz
Fun project I got to do this week in SF!
Behind the scenes video coming soon. I’m traveling back up to Canada for the rest of the month to keep ramping production of Crowns. Thanks for all the help Avi and Wes with the white Crown!
I’m thrilled to share that our sales have grown 125% month-on-month! 🤯
It’s been an exciting few weeks for Neurosity and the Crown, gaining attention thanks to some influential figures, and we couldn’t be more thankful for their support and belief in the Neurosity vision!
After a year of intense focus, failure, and engineering finesse -
@neurosity
's
#notion
will be the first FCC-certified device to EVER have brain imaging + CPUs + Internet
Demand is growing faster than churn
@neurosity
I think it’s right to give people the option to cancel, versus forcing them to buy a product outright immediately. I see churn, aka membership cancels, as a form of feedback we can measure.
I saw a customer join the membership…
Whenever I hit major milestones, I often rush to pursue the next one. We're all guilty of this. But sometimes it’s a great feeling to sit back and reflect on how far you’ve come 😌🤌🏼
Friendly reminder that I have and am being treated for depression, anxiety, and ADHD. I constantly work on my mental health, trying to learn through repetition that I’m worthy of love, friends, family, investment, and all the fruits life has to offer. Let’s keep normalizing…
Flying to DC this weekend for a friends wedding! Also signed the biggest device deal of Neurosity’s history by 25x the previous single third-party purchase record! Excited to keep the Crowns coming to thousands of heads.
I’m excited to announce that we are starting one of our first studies at
@Neurosity
.
We’ll be looking for any difference in cognitive test results when priming the mind with Neurosity music vs priming with brown noise.
#BrainTech
#NeuroTech
Fuming about teenage suicide 😡 this is the group I want to help so bad. Just lost an amazing family friend and I feel so helpless. This is the group I think of when people ask me why I am running neurosity. As someone who almost lost the battle, as someone who dreams of helping…
On this Father's Day, I want to give a heartfelt shoutout to my fellow co-founder Alex! Congratulations on becoming a new dad this year! 🎉
You’re a phenomenal partner in business and I know you’re an even more amazing father.
@castillo__io
We invited 150+ Neuro builders to showcase what’s possible with BCI tech
This was the largest Neuro Hackathon I’ve seen, organized with
@neurosity
and
@TelepathTech
Live product demos. No bullshit.
Here are the best projects:
@moizali
This opinion is unpopular most likely because it’s discriminatory and likely due to the effects of systemic racism. There is a strong correlation between student performance on the SAT and race/ethnicity, highest level of parental education, and family income. Source:…
That moment when you have a major breakthrough at work. 🎉
I finally fixed a battery display issue where the amount of battery life was wildly inaccurate - such a good feeling! 🚀
#Neurosity
#BCI
#Neurotech
Thrilled to announce that my exclusive interview with Bloomberg is now live. I talked about The Crown – how it works – and how we’re changing the face of neurotech here at Neurosity. Exciting times lie ahead! 👑
Wow, I can't believe it's already been five years since we started Neurosity! 🎉
When
@castillo__io
and I created Neurosity back in 2018, we had a dream of creating wearable technology that would push the boundaries of what's possible.
It's amazing to see how far we've come!
This is where the
@neurosity
magic happens. The monitor on the right is for most of my computer work (programming, PCB design, administrative) and the left monitor and keyboard support building/testing/debugging hardware. There is a full hardware lab to the left out of picture.
Thanks to everyone who keeps buying Crowns! We sold more Crowns last month than we had in inventory to start the month, so we had to keep manufacturing to keep up with demand throughout the month. We hired an operations teammate to speed up production to stay ahead of demand
@WesLouis_
, Apoorva, and I making the one-of-a-kind white crown for
@Grimezsz
last month.
Did you know that white is actually a combination of all colors in the color spectrum? 🧐
It’s fitting, after all – she’s the queen of eclectic, electronic, experimental dream pop 🗯️
I was filming some short videos and captured my reaction to realizing I didn't hit the record and lost my perfect take that took a ton of time to get right. My monolog quite perfectly sums up the mindset a founder needs to keep rolling.
It's Neurosity's 3rd birthday! 3 years ago I had a quad-core computer with a custom brain imaging chip on the ugliest thing you could imagine with no operating system. Alex and I teamed up, and with his code, theories, and design we made the Crown
Today is one of those days where it’s great to be running a startup. Every component is in production for
@neurosity
Notion. Most have already arrived. We just got in 6 of the first motherboards for testing and they are working perfectly! The brainwave data looks perfect 😍
"We are launching a new program for
@neurosity
Dev Kit users called Brainiac Brainstorming where we’ll help you from getting started to custom neuro-powered apps." Read more here
It's been a busy few weeks at
@Neurosity
. This is the end of my second week of three in Canada working on the assembly line. I even got to recycle two Notion 2s into test fixtures for new Crowns!
Happy World Health Day! At
@neurosity
I'm working hard to make sure we build a culture that puts mental health before deadlines. Like the brain, life is a lot like a wave, there are ups and downs that we want to support.
#WorldHealthDay2021
"But Farza, I'm a hardware startup"
What I've learned from hardware founders at
@fdotinc
is that you can 100% build prototypes + get users fast.
@andrewjaykeller
shipped an early version of the
@neurosity
on a pair of old Bose headphones as the base!!
📱 We're building towards an app store full of apps that tap into the mind.
👑 An open SDK, allows developers to realise the full potential of the Crown.
🧠 Guided meditation, controlling robotics, and creating art with the mind are just a few of the applications we have seen!
The backlog of Crowns crossed 500 today... in case you were wondering why I'm spending so much time in Canada ramping production to at least 30 Crowns per day!
Fireship and Grimes really shook things up for us, and we couldn't be happier! Our sales went through the roof 📈🔥
Here's how we ramped up production to meet demand! 🧵⬇️
The best news!
We have hired a new full-time engineer, a senior Electrical Engineer with a masters from Carnegie Mellon university. She will start in February and I could not be more excited that someone else on the team will own a hardware project for the first time!
I want the phrase to be “Life/Work” instead of “Work/Life” balance. Can we put consideration for life before work?
Last weekend I went hiking to Mount Tam with a bunch of founders and friends from
@fdotinc
who are helping me pursue balanced life; I’m very grateful for them!
I’m so excited to be going back to. San Francisco today! I’m gonna miss the scale of production but am too excited to get to work with
@ApoorvaMahajan6
and the rest of the
@fdotinc
crew!
Imagine a world where...
🔋 ADHD will be easily managed
🖼 You could create art using just your mind
🧠 Brain fog is a thing of the past
Imagine the art of possible. Meet The Crown from Neurosity.
Want to join the journey? Send me a DM.
Today is harder then most days. Time to change my environment and see how that makes me feel. Heading to
@fdotinc
for a
@neurosity
shift and hardware hacking evening.
@LaraNerdsom
@ladyleet
@reactjs
We heavily use
#RxJS
at
@neurosity
due to the fact that the brain is a continuous stream of events. We have a whole library written in RxJS for brainwave processing called eeg-pipes and we use RxJS in a lot of other places too.
Now open to the public, rent a Crown for $100/month.
For researchers and app developers, we've eliminated spending $20K on 20 devices for a month of research! That now costs $2K and any problems, we'll overnight a replacement, and ask questions later.
I recently visited our manufacturer in Canada to test out a new motherboard. Here are some highlights from the trip.
Keep an eye out for the hidden message I forgot I’d added to the design!
Hardware update!
To make a headset that fits all headshapes and hair styles we printed over 17 head shapes and bought many many wigs! We created composites of the heads to try to find an average extreme headshape and we made a crown that fits all.
If you thought GPT-4 was cool, you’re not prepared for what it can do when paired with the Crown!
@fireship_dev
absolutely killed it with this, this is next level coding! 🧠 💻
I’m so close to being flush with Crowns I can feel it! The team packed over 80 Crowns today. I completely iterated the assembly line over the weekend and change the entire flow. Now we’ve got flawless visually perfect Crowns rolling to packing by the tray load. Let’s go!
Being in tech means getting swept up in the whirlwind of innovation and disruption. But at the end of the day, I'm just a guy trying to make a difference 🌪️
From spending time with fam & friends, to sending emails - there’s a method to the madness, and magic in the mundane ✨
If you’re a programmer and a new follower of mine on twitter, consider listening to this podcast I was on yesterday to learn about my background, progress with
@neurosity
, and general views on neurotech.
Membership signups are coming in as fast as signups to the newsletter when Alex and I first announced
@neurosity
to the world. I’ve never seen any demand like the past week before.
This Mental Health Awareness month, I’m opening up an honest conversation about how mental health impacts our work, personal life, and everything in between. I’m also sharing how my personal journey has influenced the Crown. Hit that play button for the 1st video of the series!▶️
As a start-up founder, I've learned work-life balance is key for sustainable growth. It's easy to get consumed by work, but personal wellness and relationships are vital for long-term success. At Neurosity, we prioritize balance for our team and encourage others to do the same 🧘