WHO'S BEHIND THIS
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Hello. I'm Ricardo Albornoz.
I'm a software engineer teaching myself to build neurotech in public, starting with a brain-computer interface on a PiEEG. The NeuroCircuit is where I document what I'm learning — and what's actually moving in the field — while I do it.
My background is software engineering and IT manufacturing. Not a neuroscience lab, and that's the point: most people entering neurotech right now are engineers coming in sideways, like me. I'm at the start of this — my first real project is getting a BCI running on a PiEEG, and I'm documenting the whole thing, including the parts I get wrong. If you want the “expert who already figured it out” newsletter, this isn't it. If you want to watch someone actually learn this in the open, one step ahead of you at most, stay.
The obsession is older than the skills. Long before I could write a single line of code, I wanted to know how perception works, how memory forms, how something invisible produces everything we experience. The engineering came later, as a way to get my hands on the question.
The NeuroCircuit
Every issue does three things: tells you what moved in BCIs, biosensing, and neuroengineering, why it matters, and what you could build or learn next. When something is overhyped, I say so. That skepticism is most of the value.
READ THE NEUROCIRCUIT →Hack The Neuron
The longer bet: a place where engineers and researchers build open neurotech tools together, instead of each rediscovering the same problems alone.
SEE THE BUILD →I'm still early in this, and I write like it. No fake authority, no breathless futures. Just the work, in the open.
If that's what you came for — welcome.
—RICARDO ALBORNOZ