Meet the Team
Garrett Flynn
Founder of Brains@Play
Garrett is a software engineer with a passion for building brain-responsive applications.
With a background in neuroscience and interactive media, he's specialized in the development of web-based BCI systems since 2019.
Brains@Play Fellows
- Aadithyan Rajesh (2024)
- Chandhana Sathishkumar (2022)
A Brief History of Brains@Play
2020: The Brains@Play Initiative
The Brains@Play Initiative was founded as a transdisciplinary research project at the University of Southern California.
The initiative was supported by faculty advisors including:
- Marientina Gotsis: Founder and Director of the USC Games For Health Initiative
- Dong Song: Director of the USC Neural Modeling and Interface Laboratory
- Dimitris Grammenos: Principal Researcher at ICS-FORTH
Together, we ran an international design fiction competition, hosted a virtual event on the ethical and social implications of emerging neurotechnology, and even led a high school course on brain-computer interfaces.
2021: Brains@Play LLC
Organized at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brains@Play LLC was organized by Garrett Flynn and Joshua Brewster to develop low-cost biosensing hardware and browser-based BCI applications.We built a considerable amount of open-source software, particularly the Brains@Play Platform.
Along the way, we made a few mistakes, including:
- Coupling our software roadmap to hardware development goals that were too ambitious
- Abandoning our core product to focus on developer tools
- Failing to secure sustainable funding through contracts, grants, or community support.
Following disputes between the founders about proper professional conduct and a lack of alignment on future business decisions, Brains@Play LLC was dissolved in late 2023.
The GitHub organization for the company was archived to maintain a record of prior work.
2024 Onwards
All things Brains@Play are currently on hold.
Garrett continues to collect FOSS educational material on the development of brain-responsive applications while working at Universal Brain.
Check back in a few months for updates!