As someone looking to tinker with this kind of thing at home, would you recommend OpenBCI? Are there any more "consumer friendly" projects out there (i.e. off the shelf) that are affordable at a hobbyist level?
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OpenBCI is a really solid start! Though, I'd suggest it's too expensive for most people to start tinkering with it. It also has/had some reaaallly basic featuring, like writing out information as txt, instead of any other signal output datatype. But that's all fine! (just unsophisticated)
Spend some time planning what you want your first project or two to be, and then get the cheapest, lowest-feature thing from there.
If you want to *really* learn some stuff, I'd suggest you focus more time on computationally processing eeg signal (you can get [an insane amount](https://sccn.ucsd.edu/~arno/fam2data/publicly_available_EEG_...) of sample data for free). What you get from hardware yourself will just have the cool-factor of being your own :)
Mumps|4 years ago
OpenBCI is a really solid start! Though, I'd suggest it's too expensive for most people to start tinkering with it. It also has/had some reaaallly basic featuring, like writing out information as txt, instead of any other signal output datatype. But that's all fine! (just unsophisticated)
You can start off [way cheaper](https://www.instructables.com/Mini-Arduino-Portable-EEG-Brai...), and even make an [electrode out of a penny](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yglqbxYBC7Q).
Spend some time planning what you want your first project or two to be, and then get the cheapest, lowest-feature thing from there.
If you want to *really* learn some stuff, I'd suggest you focus more time on computationally processing eeg signal (you can get [an insane amount](https://sccn.ucsd.edu/~arno/fam2data/publicly_available_EEG_...) of sample data for free). What you get from hardware yourself will just have the cool-factor of being your own :)
nrat|4 years ago