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Welcome to BrainBay !

BrainBay is an open source bio- and neurofeedback application. It also offers some features for the creation of alternative Human-Computer-Interfaces (HCIs) such as facetracking via webcam, EMG signal pattern recognition or mouse-/keyboard control.

All source code is licensed under GPL, for copyright information please have a look at ReadMe_License.txt

Version Info

  • The current release version is 2.5 (2019-09-03)

  • Recent changes for this release:

    • New elements Shadow and Volume allow control of volume and desktop transparency
    • New element OSC-Sender for transfer of live values to other applications via Open Sound Control / UDP
    • Logical elements And, Or and Not got extended modes, increasing flexibility
    • Threshold element improved, increasing flexibility
    • Improved interface and handling for Neurobit devices
    • user manual updated!
  • Not-so-recent changes worth mentioning:

    • Support for Neurosky devices
    • Cursorkey integration for Oscilloscope and Threshold Windows
    • Oscilloscope features snapshots for training reporting
    • SessionManager and Sessiontime elements for menu-based selection of design

Link to Release and other Infos

Installing and Using BrainBay under Linux:

  • Install Wine (Windows-Emulator): sudo apt install winehq If this does not work: see installation guide for your OS, e.g. https://wiki.winehq.org/Debian
  • Install BrainBay: doubleclick BrainBay_Setup.exe, extract the files to a folder
  • Determint the Serial interface: Connect the EEG/serial device, use dmesg -w to display the device file (e.g. /dev/ttyUSB0)
  • Configure the serial interface as COM Port in Wine: WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wine regedit Add Item COM1 with correct string value for eh device file, e.g. /dev/ttyUSB0 (respectively the actual device name for the serial port) under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wine\Ports
  • Activate configuration: wineserver -k
  • To get audio (midi) working: sudo apt install timidity
  • Start Brainbay with midi support: timidity -iA -Os -B2,8 & wine brainbay.exe

Credits

  • Jim Peters for his marvellous filter-works (http://uazu.net/fiview/)
  • Jeremy Wilkerson for programming some BrainBay Objects and MinGW/WINE support
  • Jeff Molofee (NeHe) for this great OpenGl-tutorial (http://nehe.gamedev.net)
  • Don Cross for a well working fft-routine (http://www.intersrv.com/~dcross/fft.html)
  • AllenD for showing how to do a thread-oriented Com-Handler in Win32
  • Craig Peacock for the the PortTalk I/O-driver, see http://www.beyondlogic.org
  • Marcin Kocikowski for the Neurobit Optima-4 Device and support
  • Raymond Nguyen for the vector port additions
  • Franz Strobl for the OCZ NIA support
  • Stephan Gerhard for the QDS parser
  • William Croft (OpenBCI) for various fixes, enhancements and blog posts
  • Elliot Mebane for valuable feedback and hints for improvements
  • Jan-Hendrik Franz for Wine installation tips

Further Information

Enjoy :-)

Chris Veigl contact: chris@shifz.org

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