Did you have any luck with this? - R

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Hey thanks for writing! I actually had a ton of luck with it. I found an old Max receiver for the mindwave on cycling forums, and updated it a bit to work with the Mindwave Mobile. The data flow is pretty slow (about one reading per second), but it comes straight into Max and you can hack away to your heart's content. I made a patch to turn the "attention" and "relaxation" scores into melody, chord, beat, and timbre variations in a seamless manner. Still working at more creative projects with this headset.

Let me know if you want any help!

Best, Matt G.

Hey Matt, Sounds great. wanna share the mindwave receiver you updated ? thanks! - Rene

Hi Matt and RBrook,

Is there any chance you could share your patches? I've not come to much luck with trying to get the data into max myself... it would be much appreciated!!!

Totally man. So I used the Mindwave Mobile. I took code from a patch used for a previous NS headset. What I did was I found this piece of software called BrainWaveOSC, which was a user developed program to stream the headset data over open sound control. Then I took a patch on a previous thread, and updated the port number to correspond with the port number on BrainwaveOSC.

Here is the link for the BrainwaveOSC program: https://github.com/trentbrooks/BrainWaveOSC

Attached is the patch I used to pick this up inside the Max MSP enviornment.

Hope this helps; let me know if you have any questions! Keep in mind, there is not direct link from the headset to MaxMSP that I found. It HAS to go through BrainWaveOSC.

Matt

Great! Thanks so much for sharing.

I've had a play with BrainwaveOSC before, but I can't seem to get the headset to connect to it... quite a broad problem but any ideas with this at all? Have you any documentation on a clearish process of how this is achieved?

Thanks again