In one of my college courses we’ve just recently started using arduino boards in order to use sensors to talk to Max/MSP/Jitter to do something cool. For my final project (Which we’ve started to embark on), I’d like to create an EEG-like device to use as an input; I want to use brainwaves as an input to control something on the computer. Unfortunately, I’m not very hardware savvy and all this stuff is a bit over my head. I was wondering if anyone here could help me.
From what I understand of EEGs, electrodes are used to capture electrical signals from the skin of your scalp, amplified, and sent to the computer. I’d like something on a much, much simpler scale. I just want simple numbers that are the direct result of brain waves.
I found some schematics, but this one seems to be the most popular:
http://plus1plus1plus.org/Resources/EEG_EKG/
If someone could explain this to me, and what I’d need to build it, that’d be great. What would be even better, though, is if someone simplified it; all I need is a simple way to turn electrode stuff into an input.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!