Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “National Maker Faire: Open Source Biometrics”.
Hi, I’m Dale Dougherty we’re here at the National Maker Faire, the campus of UDC and I’m talking to kana Russo mono, who has something on his head. That he’ll tell us what it is and how it works. Sure, hi Dale. This is the ultra cortex, which is an extension of the neocortex. It’S a 3d printed, EEG headset, so in a minute EEG, so EEG is stands for electroencephalogram, which is the it’s measuring electrical activity, that’s coming out of the brain and through the scalp. So it’s the science of understanding, the electrical activity of the brain and what we’ve done is we’ve taken. You know open source technologies like Arduino and 3d printing and made a really really low-cost open-source EEG tool that anybody can use and anyone can create, and anyone can add to that’s great.
How did you make this so this the ultra cortex came out of a MakerBot rep 2 and had some wire cutters. Some super glue, some electrodes, it’s powered by your battery pack, correct yeah, so not much more than that. What’S on the back of your head, though, so on the back, we have the the open BCI amplifier, which is a it’s a multi-purpose biosensing microcontroller, so it’s very similar to Arduino, except it’s specifically geared towards taking in electrical signals from the body. So, essentially, you have the ability to program, games or applications and have them respond to signals coming out of the body. Some of the fun stuff that we’ve done recently is some some mind controlled robots. Now it’s not as easy as it seems, because you have to look at flashing screens and you have to kind of trick the brain into believing something to then control the robot, but we have done mind-control toys and games like that.
Let’S see what else now we’ve started looking at looking at ege and brain activity in the context of everyday environments, so one really cool thing about open BCI and this wave of commercial EEG devices is that all of a sudden we can look at brain activity. Out of the laboratory and in the context of the everyday world – and I think that’s one really easing thing that the maker movement has to offer for the entire industry or the field of brain science is how can we take this tool or this this field of Science, that’s typically been only approached by scientists and put it in the hands of students. Academics.
You know the younger generation who’s gon na, learn and then develop that industry, and where can we get more information about it check out open, BCI comm? That’S probably the best place, cuz we’ll be publishing all of the ultra cortex files very soon, and the red and blue and white has some connotation today. Yeah. No definitely, no just a total coincidence that it’s the national maker faire and the headsets red white and blue yeah, okay, good! Thank you! .