[Noisebridge-discuss] openeeg

[Jonathan Foote]

On the Emotiv headset,  I had a chance to try it at Kal's
Exploratorium show; either my brainwaves are random or it's not all
it's cracked up to be. (I've been getting a strong whiff of vapor from
Emotiv for a while; the fact that you can't actually buy one doesn't
help, nor does this skeptical article:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan09/7086)

In the "good news" department: I have a vintage "brain machine" with
electrodes that was loaned to me by a friend who collects them. The
last one I looked at -- since returned-- was pretty great '80s vintage
thing with a wonderfully obsolete sound chip. Anyway, I was going to
bring it by sometime when Mitch was around and play with it/take it
apart and see what's inside: please join me.

As an amateur scholar of this stuff, as far as I can tell the only way
to get statistically significant results is to use a large number (>
10) of wet electrodes over most of the scalp, then use some kind of
correlation (LDA is common) to extract signal from the noise.  Hey,
maybe we can get some data for the Machine Learning group to chew on!

-Jon

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Al Billings <albill at arcanology.com> wrote:
> Jake has mentioned some interest in hacking openeeg. This has been discussed
> here before.
>
> Other than him and I, who else is interested in this kind of project?
>
> For my case, I'd like something that talks to USB instead of older style
> ports but I'd also like some of the more experienced types here to tell us
> what kind of sensors we'll need since that is apparently a big issue.
>
> Al
>
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