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For Everyone -
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Serbian
Backyard Brains OpenLab Series 1/5: Catch the Rhythm of Your Muscle Impulses!
Have you ever seen and heard an electrical signal from a muscle?
In this workshop, you’ll have the chance to identify, record, and visually display the activity of your own muscles, and through hands-on experimentation, learn the fundamentals of electrophysiology. Every demonstration is fully interactive: you’ll be both the scientist and the test subject!
About This Workshop
Welcome to the new Backyard Brains OpenLab workshop cycle (December 10, 15, 17, 18, and 22), an introduction to the world of neural and muscular signals in the human body!
Science Through Practice
Forget passive screen-watching, here, you are part of the experiment.
Using the Human SpikerBox, you will place electrodes directly on your skin and control the signals displayed on the monitor in real time. You will test how fatigue affects your biceps signal, compete to see who can produce the “loudest” muscle sound, and attempt to draw complex shapes on a graph using only the precision of your grip, transforming physical force into digital data.
What You Will Learn
- The basics of EMG and proper electrode placement
- How muscles generate electrical signals and how we can measure them
- Recording activity from different muscle groups using the Backyard Brains Human SpikerBox
- How waveform patterns change with contraction strength
- How to “draw” a target curve using only your own muscle activity
Why Join?
You’ll explore science through your own body, listening to and observing your neural and muscular signals in real time. This workshop blends biology, technology, and engineering into an experience that is educational, accessible, and highly interactive. If you want to feel science come alive at your fingertips, this is the perfect place to start.
About the Instructor
The workshop is led by Aleksa Vasić, M.Sc. in Biology. As a science communicator, Aleksa combines biology, neuroscience, and technology to bring modern scientific discoveries closer to the public. Through practical demonstrations, he shows how the electrical signals that control our bodies can be observed, measured, and interpreted using simple tools.
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