On a CA-42 cable I just got off ebay: White = cab...

2011-10-13T05:29:19.138-07:00

On a CA-42 cable I just got off ebay:

White = cable RX
Blue = GND
Red (slightly orange) = TX

Write me an email about this. My email van be foun...

2010-12-15T22:55:22.007-08:00

Write me an email about this. My email van be found clicking on the donate button on my site. A donation is welcome too ;)

Zibri, You have come close as I can see to where ...

2010-12-15T10:21:02.291-08:00

Zibri,
You have come close as I can see to where I want to be!
I'm wanting to arrive at a point that we don't need to open the Force Trainer and/or Mindflex- instead simply plug in a RF dongle that captures at their frequency / protocol.

Why the need for the ARDUINO (beyond RANGE question)? Can't I just tune a RF receiver to pick up the data stream?

I did that post a long ago... everything is possib...

2010-12-05T07:03:44.234-08:00

I did that post a long ago... everything is possible.. it's strange you're the first one to report this...
If cross-checked I will modify the schematics..

I just cracked mine open and I'm reading the s...

2010-12-04T16:39:22.084-08:00

I just cracked mine open and I'm reading the serial data correctly, but off of the pin you've labeled RX. Is there a possibility you swapped the labels in the diagram?

nicely done, hmm no.. you're not a flake. The ...

2010-05-24T19:40:45.583-07:00

nicely done, hmm no.. you're not a flake. The force trainer is. Anyhow.. good work!

Thanks for the data. I cooked up a more graphical ...

2010-05-24T16:16:55.237-07:00

Thanks for the data. I cooked up a more graphical version of the brainwave detector. It plots a graph over time so you can see if there are any changes. Can't say I'm getting the nice clear distinction you describe but maybe it's because I'm a flake. Anyway do take a look:
http://www.clockworkrobot.com/jedi/

It depends on your cable.. there are different typ...

2010-05-19T06:30:34.710-07:00

It depends on your cable.. there are different types..

Usually GND is black, VCC is red, and rx and tx are white and blue. But many cables have different colors.

Forgive a newbie comment (software is more my back...

2010-05-18T20:54:02.527-07:00

Forgive a newbie comment (software is more my background than electronics), but where exactly on the CA-42 cable would you attach the RX, TX, and GND?

Can anyone help? what are the readings for when yo...

2010-05-14T05:56:31.023-07:00

Can anyone help? what are the readings for when you are falling asleep?
If you are in a state similar to real meditation, do you still get readings in the concentration bit?

Hi Zibri, I am an student in South Africa and am v...

2010-04-07T13:05:04.110-07:00

Hi Zibri, I am an student in South Africa and am very intrigues by this toy! Please can you provide me with more info/code relating to connecting the device to your PC. I am an engineering student but have a very limited coding background, I would love to develop this into a little project or something if I just had the skills! Thanks very much, all the way from far flung South Africa*

I am just using wire. FT gnd to arduino ground and...

2010-03-18T07:34:07.073-07:00

I am just using wire. FT gnd to arduino ground and FT TX to arduino pin 6. It is all TTL logic levels so I don't need the max232. Connecting the ground of both units is necessary when doing serial communication. Email me off list and I will try to help you resolve. My address is in the pde file

how are you connecting the force trainer to your a...

2010-03-16T18:57:34.596-07:00

how are you connecting the force trainer to your arduino, Gustav? are you attaching the TX from the base station into the soft serial RX? I'm not getting any data, as such.

As I said above. I wrote a (very poorly coded but...

2010-03-15T20:56:57.323-07:00

As I said above. I wrote a (very poorly coded but it works) Arduino converter. It will read the 3 sets of numbers and return int(s). http://www.vonroth.com/code/JKTrainer/

you will want jKTrainer.pde

Thanks, I am trying to write an arduino interface...

2010-03-10T12:01:42.517-08:00

Thanks, I am trying to write an arduino interface without actually have the force trainer device to help some H.S. students with a project. Does any one have some code to read the serial data into variables? If I don't get a response I will post a link to what I come up with in a couple days.

it's easy to figure out :) Attention - Medita...

2010-03-10T08:45:25.646-08:00

it's easy to figure out :)

Attention - Meditation - LINK quality.

your sample output lists 3 sets of numbers. 0 0 26...

2010-03-10T07:46:15.196-08:00

your sample output lists 3 sets of numbers.
0 0 26
0 0 26
0 0 26

can you tell me what each col represents.

Any news? Nobody posted anything here. Any experim...

2010-03-08T18:15:25.584-08:00

Any news? Nobody posted anything here.
Any experiments?
Thoughts?
New challenges?

@Karl As I told you :)

2009-12-31T08:55:29.914-08:00

@Karl

As I told you :)

Hey thanks for a great hack! I got mine working vi...

2009-12-30T16:43:45.714-08:00

Hey thanks for a great hack! I got mine working via the base unit, using a MAX232E RS232 chip. Works a treat :-)
Regards, Karl

Stuart, we are having the same issue you had with ...

2009-11-21T20:32:36.165-08:00

Stuart, we are having the same issue you had with the lack of serial from the header pins.

Is there any way you could provide more info on your SPI work-around? Do I understand correctly that you're connected directly to the circuit inside the headset, cutting the base station out of the equation. How and where do you read the bytes off of the SPI bus, is it just generic serial to

Any chance that you've found similar serial ou...

2009-11-14T15:31:01.483-08:00

Any chance that you've found similar serial output from the Mindflex?

IMHO this thing records mainly muscular impulses a...

2009-11-09T16:20:55.512-08:00

IMHO this thing records mainly muscular impulses and eye movements..
And some alfa and beta waves along the ride :)

Nice work! In your hacker opinion though, does it...

2009-11-09T11:39:19.768-08:00

Nice work!

In your hacker opinion though, does it seem to work? I mean, confirmation-bias and wishful thinking aside?

If so, this seems like something that should be fairly easy for a competent hacker to build! Perhaps experiement with adding more frequency-ranges to the FFT-chip or something? Emotiv and OCZ NIA both have more than 2 brain-related outputs, so..

It's so strange you have nothing on the base h...

2009-11-06T05:56:54.682-08:00

It's so strange you have nothing on the base header...
About the decoder.. what does it use? I have some max 3233 and 3111 around ;)

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