OpenBCI, would be cool to evolve this product to a smaller piece, possibly just a headband with low-cost so that it could be integrated into consumer products
This is actually an open area of research; currently most dry electrodes [i.e., ones where you don't need preplaced gels] require being spiky and intrusive, to make up for their lack of conductivity. A dry "cap" style solution would require minimized dry electrodes, which currently simply don't exist in the consumer production realm due to technological limits. Additionally, to have a small headband vs. a head cap, you would need even greater fidelity on the nodes existing along that circumference. The reason it is a cap/helmet is because many of the channels used are biologically located along the top of the head/not in a convenient band spot.
@@fghfgh123fgh awesome stuff man. BTW, i saw another video of a guy who controls a mini fan when he closes his eyes and his OpenBCI kit was a small headband only but still not good enough for integration into consumer products. This is all really cool stuff.
Can you operate the toy with ONLY brain wave commands? A friend of mine has a sister in South Carolina who can no longer move ANY muscles. Her brain works, but she cannot communicate in ANY way. If just her brain waves could "click" a phrase on a computer screen without any type of muscle movement this would allow some method for communication. At times she just cries. You can imagine the frustration. She was a nurse and she knew this was happening to her. Any help in this area would be great. I am looking for assistance locating parts and accessories they could purchase to help her with communication. I see equipment to make EEG brain waves on a computer screen, but nothing to actually communicate on a computer screen WITHOUT ANY muscle activity. Some way to just say yes or no would be incredible. Thank you.
Yes or no is a possible thing. If the subject learns to say yes or no. EEG sensor only tells the activity in your brain in the different regions. If we speak something and the subject shows change in brain activity correspondingly that might point out to something. On the other hand machine learning techniques would be needed that have wide data bases which can translate human response of yes or no in sort of a correlation with signals plot.
