Brain-Computer Interfaces - Science Fiction or Reality?

Recently, I had an opportunity to speak at the software development conference abroad for the first time. I visited Malmö in Sweden and gave a talk during the Øredev 2018 conference. The main theme of the conference was Deus Ex Machina, so I decided to adapt to this topic and prepared presentation about Brain-Computer Interfaces, which is my interest since the end of my studies at the Silesian University of Technology where I wrote a Master Thesis about similar topic....

November 21, 2018 · 3 min · 515 words · Piotr Wittchen

Facebook is making solutions to talk from the brain – so do I

During F8 Facebook Developers Conference 2017, Facebook revealed its plans for the nearest years. Among different stuff, keynote from the day 2 was especially interesting for me. Speakers talked about connectivity projects increasing access to the Internet across the globe, different methods of human-computer interaction, virtual reality, and last, but not least Brain-Computer Interface. It’s super-interesting for me, because 4 years ago I wrote Master Thesis about Brain-Computer Interface for Mobile Devices at my university & published a few short articles about Brain-Computer Interface on this blog....

April 23, 2017 · 3 min · 575 words · Piotr Wittchen

Interpreting data in csv files generated by EEG Analyzer

Introduction Sometimes people send me e-mails concerning EEG Analyzer app. Usually they are not sure how to interpret or analyze results generated by the app and uploaded to Dropbox server. My app is quite “raw” and simple, because it is additional project created during writing my Master Thesis, which helped me to perform some experiments and analysis of EEG data. That’s why I didn’t focused on generating reports from gathered data....

January 6, 2015 · 4 min · 788 words · Piotr Wittchen

EEG Analyzer - Android app

I recently published my side project connected with BCI and EEG technology in Google Play Store. EEG Analyzer reads electrical activity of the brain with EEG technology and blink strength with EMG sensor from NeuroSky MindWave Mobile device connected via Bluetooth to Android device. In order to use this application, you need to have NeuroSky MindWave Mobile device, which can be ordered from http://neurosky.com/ website. Direct link to the mentioned product: http://store....

September 1, 2014 · 1 min · 165 words · Piotr Wittchen

Brain-Computer Interface for mobile devices - Master Thesis presentation

Recently, I graduated from my university. Below, you can browse my Master Thesis presentation about Brain-Computer Interface for mobile devices. If you are interested in writing mobile Android applications communicating with NeuroSky MindWave Mobile device, you can check my EEG Reader project on GitHub, which can be treated as a basis for more advanced projects. During writing my Master Thesis, I created two another projects using similar concepts. Mentioned code may be a little bit outdated comparing to the newest Android trends, but feel free to fork and upgrade it....

July 8, 2014 · 1 min · 121 words · Piotr Wittchen