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Ask HN: I'd like to dabble with brain computer interface, recommendations?

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I'm looking for tutorials and what hardware to buy. A neuroscience online course for the layman would be great as well.

There's http://openbci.com/ but I was wondering if there's a cheaper way to get started. Thanks

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Be prepared for some noisy-heavy signals. I haven't experimented around with enough different acquisition methods to recommend a particular device, but each one is going to have their own challenges (either $ getting them or some negative signal quality issue).

Once you have a system there should be some basic demos with regards to observing a few EEG bandpower based estimates. Beyond that I would recommend looking at SSEVP (steady state evoked visual potential) as all of the conference papers/talks/posters/etc about that topic make it seem reasonably approachable compared to other tasks, being EEG (rather than LFP) friendly (IIRC), and it makes for some cool applications.

source - I spent a few years researching EEG/LFP recordings in the context of speech and sleep (separately)