Arturo Vidich, Sofy Yuditskaya, and I needed a way to read brains for our Mental Block project last fall. After looking at the options, we decided that hacking a toy EEG would be the cheapest / fastest way to get the data we wanted. Here’s how we did it.

The incipit of this blog post got my undivided attention. On two feet, I can think of a number of seriously interesting applications for an EEG connected to Arduino and the wider interwebs. Read the super detailed instructions for hacking a toy EEG to use the reading a you please.