Brain hackers

This is the page of the Brain Hackers aka the Neurohacking/Neuromodulation London Hackspace Group. We do experiments and play around with kits to measure and alter brain activity in a non-invasive way and develop novel accessible neurostimulation means accompanied by real time measurement and feedback. Some of us are trained neuroscientists or electronics engineers, others are hobbyists. All friendly and interested people are welcome to volunteer and participate in trials, but everything is obviously at your own risk (where such risk may exist).

We are now in the process of organizing and starting work on a few specific projects from the Project Ideas. More update on this in the coming weeks.

List of kit available by different members of the group:

-EEG -> multiple copies of the 1 channel bipolar (TrueSense Kit) recorder, multiple copies of MindWave Mobile (1 channel) and Muse (4 channels), Emotiv Epoc (14 channels), KT88 (16 channels, photic stimulation), AMEA slow potentials mapper (2 channels)

-tDCS (transcranial direct current stimulation) -> DIY, via Starstim, via foc.us

-tACS/tPCS (transcranial alternate current stimulation) -> DIY, foc.us, Rhythm-2 2 channel tPCS stimulation device, DrTES (transcranial analgesia device)

-Transcranial laser / decoherent light stimulation within optical permeability window of tissues (roughly between 600 and 1200 nm) -> Matrix LLLT with in-built photometer and external SRT block, impulse modulated 890 nm and 635 nm single and matrix lasers, continuous modulated 810 and 640 nm, all-inclusive large laser/LED head, continuous red/infrared LED matrix

-High Power TMS (short pulses up to 1 Tesla, modulation 2-2500 Hz) - TDHP40DEL with 4 coils.

-Weak field TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation, microtesla range or even lower) -> 64 coil Koren/Murphy/Persinger helmet augmented for placement of more coils, smaller phone tap coils - based hats and setups, large (3m) coil, MIT-MT stimulator (0.1-99 Hz range) with different size coils (induction going up to 25 mT max, 8-shaped configuration up to 10 mT) including coils with centrally positioned high power red, IR and blue LEDs for combined light/photic and magnetic stimulation, Almag-02 Version 2 running field (up to 50 mT) pre-programmed multi-coil stimulator

-Other -> photopletismograph with vegetative status estimation capability, modulated high voltage "singing arc", scopes, magnetometers, function generators, amps, shielded random number generator etc.

DIY news: USB fully software-controlled 2 channel combined electro/TMS/infrared stimulator is now fully operational, PoC code that internetworks BCI's from various vendors will be available soon - we expect to present it at Nineworlds FutureTech.

Miscellanea: Michael Persinger's "God Helmet" effectiveness has been reproduced by an independent group: http://www.scribd.com/doc/267811996/God-Helmet-Replication-Study

Of course, you are more than welcome to suggest other relevant ideas to test and projects to try. The possibilities are, indeed, "Limitless" (pun intended).

P.S.: folks from Mind Hacking and Biohacking groups are, of course, welcome to join in, but we surely need electronic engineering and coding enthusiasts interested in such matters!

For neuroscience and technical questions and curiosities involving brain hacking, feel free to get in touch with any of the following:

Martin Dinov

Andrew Vladimirov

Dirk Bruere

Some of the popular relevant presentations from Andrew can be found here:

https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/w/index.php?title=File:Cogenhancement_part1.pdf

https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/w/index.php?title=File:Cogenchancement_part2.pdf

https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/w/index.php?title=File:The-future-of-accessible-neurostimulation.pdf

https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/w/index.php?title=File:Self_hacking_via_replay_attacks.pdf

https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/w/images/b/b9/The_rise_of_neurosocial_networks.pdf

Some of us on BBC Radio 4 and on Sky TV:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b050zpwt