1: making of open brain wave interface hardware prototype.

you can skip to see this page and prototype 1, 2 and 3 to go diagram also.

to make brain interface is not easy. to see brain wave need to use less than 1 micro V (1/1,000,000 V) resolution amplifier, and need to care for electrode and skin connection to forehead. all interface need to isolate from AC power supply.

need to use low noise amp. make that way is not easy to make low cost, unless make mass production. however recent open hardware technology let us to make low cost by our self, it was my over 20 years of dream to make low cost and high quality brain wave interface. like to share this how i made open brain wave interface.

first i made prototype that use head amp i made over 20 years ago.

i start develop brain wave interface around 40 years ago with all analog electric device with LED. LED technology was open around that time. it is like miracle : silicon device can make light, but brightness was so weak that time, like 20 mA current makes 1 mcd, but I start make LED accessory, everybody surprised it. new LED which I used for prototype 2 is 20 mA current makes 25,000 mcd. many new technology happened like that way, for beginning is so little but going to so big. some people can see this beginning of changes, but some people can not see this changes.  many times happened coverup of new technology too.

it was my personal interest to start develop bio feedback device that included brain wave feedback.

unfortunately not easy to see brain wave at that time. so i was dreaming to have more nice way to see it.

since mid 1970 start use digital technology with analog device such as switched capacitance filter.

then start micro compute age. i was so existing to use this CPU technology with bio feedback system.

Start use LISA and Mac computer since 1983/1984, control mouse with brain wave, show brain wave on the Window on screen. Did brain wave control MIDI since it is start.

http://www.psychiclab.net/Public/1984.html

we are not just only bio entity. also connected hyper space, mind-spirit world. so brain wave technology = brain microphone 's information can not tell all of human mind of course. however can see so interesting way to change brain wave that depend on our state. My case some time i worked many days no sleep, i was so surprised that my brain wave looks so many high beta frequency active and can not make it down. it was nice for me to see it for use personal brain excise. also sleep and dream brain wave is my interest. i don't do but people doing meditation, tai chi, yoga etc. also interesting way to change brain wave, to see coherence is one of my interest.

We can connect brain wave to multimedia, to control, sound, MIDI, animation, LED light, DMX, connect via internet, etc. can use as one of input device.

beginning was so slow to control many things limited by technology. this video shows how to play MIDI with brain wave in 1993, play by Timothy Leary.

http://www.psychiclab.net/iWeb/Pod/Podcast/29E21D35-E5C5-4508-99AB-3826CEC02A4C.html

Our electric technology is still so primitive like before actually technology born. we are waiting to use Memristor and TeraHertz CPU technology. but now computer speed getting better than before. so many interesting things we can do now.

my system get brain wave from forehead, left and right, you can put electrode other location in case you like.

some people like to connect many electrode, but i don't like to do that way. it’s take long time to put electrode and not easy to continue always wear that way.

also some people like put electrode inside of brain : implant. currently I don't like that way. some case people need to do like to do or not. this technology maybe going to big business like cell phone.

so i forces to get brain wave only from forehead, like brain wave stereo microphone. connect many electrode mean like use many microphone to recording sound. that way we can get more information of course. but not easy to setup that way always.

forehead is most development part of human brain, and shows personality. other part of brain use for more like as human bio robot : same as other animal except Dolphin and cat. it is just in generally say that way. not for all animal included human. we are created by different beings/entity.

one of IBVA prototype photo: Interactive Brain wave Visual Analyzer : 1988

active head AMP (Left) and AD converter and serial converter use PAL programable logic IC.

1989, I used one of IBVA prototype with friend Bill Cote ( http://bcvideo.com ) we did brain wave experience at Peru, MARKAWASHI, Machu Picchu,  on airplane fling over Nazca Line, etc.

few brain wave experience that time.

http://www.psychiclab.net/IBVAex/BillMachuPicchu.html

http://www.psychiclab.net/IBVAex/BillPeru2.html

photo at Machu Picchu.

following images are actual product in 1991 witch use classic radio wave. one unit has one channel brain wave and use transmitter and receiver unit.

Next product start ship from 2006 to currently use Bluetooth. one unit has two channel brain wave + extra two channel 0-5 V input.

both brain wave interface has similar quality of brain wave head amp which i start design since 1980's.

so i used two original IBVA's head amp parts from transmitter unit and Arduino BT put together to make prototype open brain wave interface unit.

following is step by step instruction how I made it.

all people who has original IBVA can make same way in case they like to do so.

then next show re-design brain wave hardware circuit diagram that based on original IBVA design and use Arduino. everybody can use this diagram to make it.

later show actual photo and all parts list for this open hardware.

most difference between Arduino open brain wave interface and actual current IBVA Bluetooth product is max sampling frequency.

open brain wave interface Max sampling frequency is 240 Hz, actual product is 1980 Hz. usually 240 Hz sampling frequency is ok to do many things.

but open brain wave interface use Arduino, so easy to modify program to do many things like LED feedback on unit, which actual product can not to do that way.

it is like dream for me, can put together old AMP unit and new Arduino interface. and now we can use with high speed Mac/PC.

original IBVA start ship 1991 for Mac.

1998, IBVA won a product award at the MacWorld New York.

http://www.psychiclab.net/IBVA/PhotosPublic.html

http://www.psychiclab.net/IBVA/PhotosMedia.html

current product use Bluetooth interface which start ship from 2006.

http://www.psychiclab.net/IBVA/IBVA_.html

about Brain wave.

1924 July 6, Hans Berger recorded signal from an intact skull at University of Jena, Germany. He discovered human electroencephalogram he called "Elektroenkephalogramm", recorded alpha wave rhythm 8 to 12 Hz, also know as Berger's wave. he was interested in psychic phenomena research to use EEG system.

1934 the first brain wave biofeedback was tested by Edgar Douglas Adrian at Cambridge with his partner, B.H.V.Matthews, replicated Hans Berger's work.

there is many EEG related information on the web, depend on your interest.

something like :

http://www.psych.westminster.edu/psybio/BN/Labs/Brainwaves.htm

however not many open information for special research resolute.

i'm interested in to see coherence. some of my experience of coherence data.

http://www.psychiclab.net/IBVAex/CoherenceEX_2.html

about coherence display in IBVA 5 application.

http://www.psychiclab.net/IBVA/Coherence.html

coherence experience was started 1972..1976 by David W.Orme-Johnson, Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation technique. This Meditation was getting popular by Beatles. Maharishi Institute Japan visiting my home in Manhattan New York beginning of 1990's ask me to incorporate there coherence function to my IBVA application. so I work together with brain wave research people in Maharishi international university in Fairfield Iowa to develop coherence function. early 1970's with there computer took one week calculation time for coherence to print out paper. now with IBVA 5 application with current computer can see coherence in realtime.

1972 was also SRI ( Stanford Research Institute ) invited URI Geller for six weeks of psychic testing by Laser physicists Dr. Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ, CA USA. they tested psychic with brain wave experiment.

1968-1972 Andrew D. Basiago join DARPA's Project Pegasus, time travel, teleportation experiment. one of the system Montauk Chair used brain wave feedback system. http://www.projectpegasus.net/

1972 also first Crop Circle found in modern history at Warminster UK by Bryce Bond.

http://www.cropcirclesecrets.org/crop_circles_early.html

Brain wave experience in the Crop Circle. : 1993 .. 2002

http://www.psychiclab.net/IBVAex/BrainwaveCropCircle.html

1972, i was in Sapporo japan, organized one of first hippie outdoor concert event in Japan that used stereo system I made as PA system. i start develop brain wave monitor device. actually not easy to see brain wave that time. mid 1980 i start work as head of ASC II Laboratory for human computer interface research included brain wave biofeedback, UFO and Psychic phenomena research. it was first company did research for this kind in Japan. few years later ASC II need divided in two for start Microsoft japan develop world first Windows computer with NEC. Our laboratory's main system was based on LISA and Mac, and not worked for develop Windows system, we did more basic research, but developed brain wave visualization system with MS DOS computer with mouse. ASC II and NEC was large computer related company in Japan that time. I was so surprised when I tested Windows Alpha version computer, programming structure was so similar as Mac.

http://www.psychiclab.net/IBVA/ASCIILAB.html

1988 November with UFO study group friend in Sapporo Japan, we invited Kiyota to do psychic spoon vending open experience. so i try to make new IBVA prototype without sleep few days with new color Mac II, it was first color Mac just released. I was so exciting to make brain wave visualization application in color display only 256 color that time. however brain wave experience was not succeeded that time. my system didn’t work correctly.

http://psychiclab.net/IBVA/KiyotaPhoto.html

Following is how I made open brain wave interface prototype 1,2 and 3.

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