May Newsletter
Greetings OpenBCI community! We’re starting out May with exciting updates for you guys!
Every newsletter we announce software releases and this month is no different. We have a major OpenBCI GUI release that affects lots of users! See Section Two below for more details and links. Recently, OpenBCI has seen exponential interest in brain enhancement and mental health applications of BCI. As seen in research, media, and news, the growth of the BCI community is rapidly accelerating and we’re very excited to see what the future brings! Check out Sections Three and Four!
We post up-to-the-minute developments on our Twitter and love engaging with our community! Tweet at us your questions and what you find interesting, and, more often than not, you’ll hear back!
Last but not least, the team is heading to California for the OpenBCI-Sponsored 2018 BCI Meeting in Asilomar. We hope to see you there!
In this Newsletter:
- Upcoming Annual BCI Meeting at Asilomar
- Grab some new OpenBCI gear!
- Software/Tutorial Updates
- BigRed//Hacks at Cornell University
- Innovative Uses of OpenBCI – Brainwavr, Alzheimer Detection, and More!
- General Survey Link
1. Annual BCI Meeting
The Seventh International BCI Meeting: “BCIs: Not Getting Lost in Translation”, is scheduled for May 21 – 25, 2018 at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California, USA. The BCI Meeting brings together technologists, scientists, engineers, thought leaders, and clinicians involved in BCI research and clinical use. This is the first year that OpenBCI is a major sponsor of the event and the whole team will be attending!
 We’ll convene at the retreat-like conference filled with talks, workshops, classes, and other fun/engaging activities! Our CEO, Conor, and BCI Rockstar, AJ Keller (founder of Push the World), will be helping to run a workshop titled “From the lab into the wild: shaping methods and technologies for large-scale BCI research.” We hope you’ll join in the fun!
2. Buy some new OpenBCI gear!
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3. Software Updates
OpenBCI GUI V3.3.0 uses the new hub v1.4.2 and is now available for mac/windows/linux!
We have heard a lot of frustrations with the WiFi shield discovery and are looking for new ways to discover the wifi shield over a local network. We hope that being able to add the static IP address to use the wifi shield will solve a lot of problems. Download the latest GUI here! For those Ganglion/Mac users who have not been able to use the internal BLE hardware, you may now use the BLED112 dongle and get that perfect data! (Buy from Mouser).
New Hub v1.4.2 supports static IP addresses for the WiFi Shield and supports BLED112.
We found that people cannot run the OpenBCI GUI from the latest Processing 3.3.7 so be sure to use the Processing 3.3.6 or earlier!
The WiFi Shield has been adding noise to the Cyton boards, is this happening to you? Have you been able to solve this problem? We want to hear from you! Fill out this WiFi Shield specific survey. We want to make OpenBCI reliable, easy, research grade and fun!
To learn more, check out our Github account and Docs sections! And don’t forget to submit bugs/issues to our repos or ask technical questions on our Forum.
4. Community Member of the Month!
The thing we love most about OpenBCI is our amazingly diverse and inspiring community of hackers, neuroscientists, makers, and more! To celebrate you, we have decided to feature our favorite recent community project in each newsletter. If you are interested in being featured or know someone who has a cool OpenBCI project that they might want to share, please fill out this interest form. |
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This month we want to spread the word about BigRed//Hacks, the oldest student-run, large-scale hackathon at Cornell University.
 OpenBCI was used to create/control a robotic arm at this 30-hour hackathon. The students (Viren Shah, Niharika Shukla, Ambikaa Jaggi, and Rishi Singhal) were lead by Colin Fausnaught. Great work everyone!
5. OpenBCI Applications: Brainwavr, Alzheimer detection, and more!
Brainwavr combines VR and OpenBCI’s EEG system to interact with the brain via sight, sound, smell, and touch! Future uses include therapeutics, meditation, gaming and potentially much more! See the tech in action and updates on the new prototype debuting soon. The project won the Editor Choice Award at World Maker Faire 2017, was featured in NYVR Expo 2017, NYU IDM Spring 2017 Showcase, Bank of American & Thomson Reuters VR Event Showcase, N1 Spectrum News, NYC Media Lab ’17 Demo Expo!
 In other news, our technology has been featured in Freethink Superhuman, Freethink Media, IEEE Pulse, and ICCN!
6. Community Survey
We hope that your experience with OpenBCI has been awesome! We are constantly trying to improve the OpenBCI platform. For this reason, we ask that you give us 5 minutes of your time, and complete our latest survey.
Your feedback is extremely valuable to us! Your answers will be anonymous and we will post the answers to selected questions in our future newsletters.
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Your feedback is extremely valuable to us! Your answers will be anonymous and we will post the answers to selected questions in our future newsletters.
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Thank You!
From everyone at OpenBCI, we want to say thank you. Your support is making the open-source Neurorevolution possible. We look forward to getting the latest OpenBCI technology into your hands. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, don’t hesitate to reach out: [email protected]. Kind regards,
The OpenBCI Team
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links are broken and go to nsfw sites, pls change
Thanks for the heads up! Seems something happened to the Brainwavr site…
The links you provided still lead to NSFW for us, so we’re just removing links to Brainwavr for now.