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First Steps in Amateur Neuroscience
The button has finally been pressed. After months of waiting—and saving up—my pre-order for an OpenBCI board has been placed. The OpenBCI is an open-hardware, open-software ‘Brain Computer Interface’...
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OpenBCI: Background on the Brain
A few years ago I was given an Emotiv EPOC headset. The EPOC is a reasonably affordable, consumer EEG headset with 14 channels — essentially, a device that measures electrical activity generated inside...
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OpenBCI Brain Basics: Structure and Biology
Understanding a little bit about what we know of the brain and how it works is a necessary step for anyone interested in brain-computer interfaces, EEG, or biofeedback. This article is an overview of...
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The Regional Brain
In this article I’m going to introduce the regions of the brain, the scientific terms for location, and the lobes that produce EEG signals that can be measured with a non-invasive device such as the...
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Getting Started with OpenBCI
In October, I pre-ordered an OpenBCI, billed as the open-source brain-computer interface for makers. It arrived a few days ago, and after some technical hurdles, I’ve completed my initial tests. What...
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Using Recorded OpenBCI Data in OpenViBE
OpenViBE is a open source EEG software suite. Somewhat like BrainBay, it has a visual scenario designer that allows you to manipulate your EEG data and apply all sorts of processing algorithms,...
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Use BrainBay + OpenBCI on Linux with Wine
The OpenBCI Processing application supports basic filtering and configuration, but options for manipulating the data further are scarce. When my OpenBCI arrived, I started looking around at the other...
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Do Binaural Beats Really Affect Brainwaves?
Can you use audio recordings to entrain your brainwaves, alter your consciousness, and “meditate deeper than a zen monk”? In this post we set out to shed light on that question with a fairly simple...
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Announcing NeuroBB: The EEG, BCI, and Neurofeedback Forum
Today we’re delighted to launch our latest project into the world. After months of development, we present NeuroBB — The EEG, BCI, and Neurofeedback Discussion Forum. Brain-computer interfaces have...
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Easy as Py: EEG data analysis with EEGrunt
If you’ve read previous articles on this blog, you know that we have a hankering for amateur neuroscience and have been doing some EEG experiments with the OpenBCI. At first, we used the OpenBCI app....
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Neurotech Hardware Roundup 2016
These are exciting times for citizen neuroscientists. In the last few years, all kinds of new EEG systems have appeared. When we first started looking into low-cost EEG hardware, we only found a...
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EEGrunt update: Analyze heart rate and HRV with Python
A year ago we released EEGrunt and wrote an announcement post here on The Autodidacts, which included a brief overview of what EEGrunt was good for and a quick getting-started tutorial. EEGrunt is a...
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Introducing: BCIBox, an open source enclosure for the OpenBCI
The OpenBCI is a pleasantly affordable, refreshingly open source biosignal amplifier with high-quality multi-channel output, an excellent user community, and a hackable design that have made it a go-to...
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