The Brain Machine
1st Edition
Published on 9. September 2009
13 pages
978-1-4493-9185-0 (ISBN)
Description
Ride your own brain waves! You don't have to be a Buddhist monk to meditate, or a Sleeping Beauty tosleep well. Achieve these altered states of consciousness, and others, with this simple microcontroller device. What would happen if you could play a recording of brain waves into someone's brain? It turns out that there are devices that can do this. Sound and Light Machines (SLMs) produce sound and light pulses at brain wave frequencies, which help people sleep, wake up, meditate, or experience whatever state of consciousness the machine is programmed for. This article shows you how to build an SLM for much cheaper than you can buy one. We'll do it the easy way, by hacking a microcontroller project that already exists: Limor Fried's Mini-POV kit. This cool toy blinks pictures and words in the space you wave it through, and we can transform it into an SLM simply by changing the firmware and some minor hardware.This project originally appeared on the pages of Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 10.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Product notice
Windows
ISBN-13
978-1-4493-9185-0 (9781449391850)
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Content
- Intro
- Ride Your Own Brain Waves
- How Sound and Light Hack the Brain
- Home Entrainment System
- SET UP
- MATERIALS
- TOOLS
- BUILD YOUR SOUND AND LIGHT MACHINE
- 1.BUILD AND TEST-PROGRAM THE PCB
- 2.MAKE THE SLM CONTROLLER
- 3.PREPARE THE BATERY PACK
- 4.PREPARE THE GLASSES
- 5. ATTACH THE BATERY PACK AND PCB
- 6. SECURE THE HEADPHONE JACK AND LOOSE WIRES
- 7. APLLY COOL GRAPHICS (OPTIONAL)
- TRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
- Programming Your Own Brain Wave Sequences
- Brain Machine II
- RESOURCES
- ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
- RELATED KITS AND RESOURCES
