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Re:DIY Neurotech:Making BCI open-source thrusts brain-signal... by yummypaint on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @03:29PM (#35632276)
This is a different technology that uses optical methods, but the ninja FNIRS project is very exciting and open source. They seem to have a solid and modular hardware design. I know someone who uses a commercial NIRS instrument in a clinical research setting and they said this open source system looks far more capable.

https://openfnirs.org/hardware/ninjanirs/

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Re:DIY Neurotech:Making BCI open-source thrusts brain-signal... by mhb on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:07PM (#35632679)
Does it say anywhere on that web site WTF fNIRS is?

"OpenfNIRS is driven by the community to support the community in the use of fNIRS."

Edit: They sort of mention it, apparently en passant, on https://openfnirs.org/standards/:

"Shared Near Infrared Spectroscopy Format (SNIRF) is designed by the community in an effort to facilitate sharing and analysis of NIRS data."

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Re:DIY Neurotech:Making BCI open-source thrusts brain-signal... by pizza on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:26PM (#35632880)
functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy, like fMRI
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Re:DIY Neurotech:Making BCI open-source thrusts brain-signal... by EEBio on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:45AM (#35651229)
Some extra context:

EEG has poor spatial resolution, but great time resolution. It measures electrical activity.

fNIRS has a great spatial resolution, but poor time resolution. It measures blood flow in specific parts of the brain.

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Re:DIY Neurotech:Making BCI open-source thrusts brain-signal... by mkaic on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @08:43PM (#35635066)
This is super fascinating. I've been itching to get into BCI hacking recently, I've got some ideas regarding deep learning integrations and it makes me happy to know that if I could just get my act together, there is consumer-available hardware I could use to start messing around with!
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