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Open Source Headset Enables New Mind-Controlled Devices (popsci.com)
An anonymous reader writes: "When DARPA funded research into a brain-computer interface, artist and engineer Joel Murphy and his former student Conor Russomanno built a working prototype," reports Popular Science. After a crowdfunding campaign, the team successfully developed an Open Source version -- a $399 headset that can register brain-wave electricity (named Ultracortex), along with a $99 board named Ganglion that can use those signals to control mechanical devices. "We want it to essentially be a Lego kit that you get in the mail, which also just happens to be a brain-computer interface," says Russomanno.
Their web site is already accepting pre-orders, though because both the hardware and software are open source, you can also generate your own headset with a 3D printer. And according to the article, two British students are now using the technology to create an app that issues commands to a smartphone by winking.
Their web site is already accepting pre-orders, though because both the hardware and software are open source, you can also generate your own headset with a 3D printer. And according to the article, two British students are now using the technology to create an app that issues commands to a smartphone by winking.
Been done, open source software and hardware plans available, also available ready to play for $399?
The significance here isn't a high CMRR amplifier, it's a complete brain-computer interface component that's ready to be used as a standard HID like your keyboard or mouse. Well, I don't see the USB port, but some boffin needs to put one on there and re-release the upgraded device. And, that's the point, it's a significant chunk of tech already worked out in a standard, readily available format that a community can form around and extend and improve - like Raspberry Pi or Arduino (that happens to be at the core of this), sure the tech has been available forever, but not in a "community oriented" "developer friendly" package.
It always sounds great, until you get to the reality where eye-blink signals are 1000x more powerful and much easier to use for control than any "thought based" signals.
Build your best brain controlled interface, put it on, then realize that you're doing input with your eyelid and forehead muscles more than your thoughts.
The solid models are available for you to 3D print, that's about as open as hardware gets.
... for it to work, you must think in Russian..
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Now try to detect them through a layer of bone, which is a pretty good insulator, and skin.
Not a problem. The kit includes a drill and a manual for surgical insertion of electrodes in the brain.
Therefore, by the (faulty) logic you're using, you're just a cow with a keyboard - osu-neko (2604)