Re: Seeking advice to get going with EEG.

Hi David,

I would seriously consider to hold on a little longer and go with the
Ganglion Board Kit from OpenBCI (4 channels!) when it's out. You'll fit
right in with your background in electronics and programming! Free software
and better community support (this list has become very silent). The modeeg
is a very good device though, don't get me wrong. I believe I've seen
people using it with Matlab and it is also compatible with a few commercial
software packages. If you do go with modeeg, indeed get the SMT version
from Olimex. It's a much more ready to use package. If you go with the
older boards you would theoretically have the option to stack some more
analog boards which provides you with more electrode inputs. But I've
seldom seen anybody really building such an expanded device. With the older
boards you still have to fit it in an enclosure and do the hookup wiring
yourself. Plus you're on your own with making the electrodes or I think you
could maybe use the passive smt version electrodes from Olimex. Watch out
with using the device for actual neurofeedback. Probably better to have a
QEEG done by a professional beforehand so you know which brainwaves you
actually need to train at which position on the scalp according to the
10-20 system. Just my two cents on the subject.

Good luck

Regards,

Niels



On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 7:33 AM, David Alenhag <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello.
>
> This is my very first post and I have never ever used a mailing list
> before so I am making the assumption that I might do some things wrong and
> if that's the case I apologise.
>
> I am fairly well oriented in electronics hardware and I have recently
> leaned to program AVRs ATXmega microcontrollers(Atmel Studio 7 with C/C++),
> and I am familiar with Matlab programming and have just begun learning
> Python.
>
> I want to analyse my brain activity, just to see what is happening when
> do this and that but also in order to control my environment with
> thoughts(having a mcu acting upon certain brain activity to control the
> lamps in my apartment perhaps, or any similar idea).
>
> Here are my questions:
>
> (1)- Now I am in a bad economic situation so the lowest cost is preferable
> but I don't understand what I need, is it enough to buy one analog board
> and one digital board(assembled boards from Olimex)?
>
> (2)- What would be the point of having more than one analog board?
>
> (3)- Olimex sells EEG-ANALOG-ASM, EEG-DIGITAL-ASM but then they are
> selling EEG-SMT, would I miss out on anything buy choosing the EEG-SMT
> instead of going for a ModularEEG design(1 EEG-ANALOG-ASM + 1
> EEG-DIGITAL-ASM)?
>
> The neat thing about EEG-SMT seems to be that it is delivered with an
> enclosure and Olimex are selling active and passive electrodes that fit
> with the EEG-SMT.
>
> (4)- Would it be problematic if I wanted to use the data from ether the
> ModularEEG or EEG-SMT from Olimex for processing inside of Matlab?
>
> I am very excited about this hole concept and I am trying to research it
> as well as I can but I have some difficulties in that regards due to severe
> ADD(Attention Deficit Disorder), I will consult a professional but while I
> am asking questions I might as well ask if you know if that fact could be
> relevant for the usage of a system such as this?
>
> Any help with these questions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards David
>
>
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