First Recording Session with my Shiny New openBCI

So I finally found some time to get my hands dirty with the openBCI. For now, I decided to just follow the Getting Started Tutorial.

Applying the electrodes was a bit messy at first but I got the hang of it quickly. I'll need to find an affordable electrode cap soon though.

wired up and ready to go

The data looks good so far, I played around a bit with moving my eyes, blinking, clenching my jaw etc. and the artifacts looked the way they're supposed to.

I wasn't sure what to expect from the GUI, but I have to say that it's really not bad. It is certainly much better than any MATLAB tool that I have used in the past. 

Top and bottom channels are EEG, EKG in the middle.

Just flexing my masticatory muscles.

My openBCI is here!

Yesterday, after weeks of anxiously waiting for my openBCI, I got a notification that it is waiting for me at the post office.

They included a sticker and a sew-on patch.

First impressions: The board is really gorgeous and the solder joints look good.

The board is a lot smaller than I expected.

It is definitely going to need a case, but I haven't seen any designs for 3d printed or laser cut cases yet.

I'm super excited right now and can't wait to start recording and throwing algorithms at the data. Right now I don't have time to do anything with it, but that will hopefully change soon.