Re: Welcome to the "Openeeg-list" mailing list

Hi OpenEEG,

I've been doing home EEG for some years now. I have a psychosis I try
to log, it makes for hilarious situations of which I have had many.

I've mostly worked with OpenBCI and Muse devices. I've noticed with
these, there isn't always demonstration of the kind of strengths often
seen in free software, things like cheapness, interoperability,
stability, hackabilty, overall public software architecture, and a
community where changes are discussed and improved upon ... I'm much
more familiar with community projects than commercial ones.

Where is the OpenEEG community at? What projects have staying power
and/or active development effort? Is anything funded? Is anything
integrating support for many different parts?

What hardware is most used nowadays? Anything open source and modular?

Via OpenBCI I did find BrainFlow. It has only one developer, but is
trying to integrate many platforms. It also had a homebrew machine
learning submodule. I've also stumbled on OpenVIBE, but had trouble
staying with it and remembering it exists, maybe because it looks so
incredibly useful; I tend to get stuck on hardware issues anyway. Not
sure where that project is.

Ideally, I'd like to some day have a system where people can record
long term EEGs with >64 channels, maybe by modularly combining other
equipment. I value not being wireless; I get lost data over wireless
connections. I value resisting the elements: I've had devices break
from getting wet or damaged. I've also broken devices trying to
waterproof them with hot glue; maybe it changes the circuit
properties.

I'm not sure what infrastructure to build, contribute to, or acquire
to get there most effectively. What has the most promise? What is the
most idiot-proof?

When I work my way through my issues, I often make large contributions
to software projects. For example, I ported libusb to rootless android
so that brainflow could access more devices on mobile, and contributed
this back to libusb as a pull request with pages of comments. I also
attempted to integrate features and bugfixes,  and accompanying
testsuite expansions, to openbci's largest library some years prior.

It can be very hard for me to work on these things, so my engagement
is sporadic, but I do have a lot to contribute. But I'm not sure where
to do this.

Karl