Welcome to BrainBay !

BrainBay is an open source bio- and neurofeedback application. It also offers some features for the creation of alternative Human-Computer-Interfaces (HCIs) such as facetracking via webcam, EMG signal pattern recognition or mouse-/keyboard control.

All source code is licensed under GPL, for copyright information please have a look at ReadMe_License.txt

New: BrainBay User Forum available, see: https://brainbay.iphpbb3.com/

Version Info

• The current release version is 2.81 (2024-07-25)

• Recent changes for this release:

  • support for the new Neurobit Runtime v5.4!

• Not-so-recent changes in recent releases worth mentioning:

  • support for new Brainflow version, serveral new compatible EEG amplifiers!
  • improved element captions
  • New elements Shadow and Volume allow control of volume and desktop transparency
  • New element OSC-Sender for transfer of live values to other applications via Open Sound Control / UDP
  • Logical elements And, Or and Not got extended modes, increasing flexibility
  • Threshold element improved, increasing flexibility
  • Improved interface and handling for Neurobit devices
  • Support for Neurosky devices
  • Cursorkey integration for Oscilloscope and Threshold Windows
  • Oscilloscope features snapshots for training reporting
  • SessionManager and Sessiontime elements for menu-based selection of design

Link to Release and other Infos

• Download latest release: https://github.com/ChrisVeigl/BrainBay/releases

• The release contains an installer for windows. In addition, the 'bin' folder of the github source repo contains an up-to-date executable file (BrainBay.exe) The 'bin' folder also contains the user- and developer manuals (.pdf).

• If you want to use BrainBay with the OpenBCI Ganglion, install the OpenBCIHub fist - have a look at:

  • http://docs.openbci.com/OpenBCI%20Software/01-OpenBCI_GUI#the-openbci-gui-installing-the-openbci-gui-as-a-standalone-application-install-openbci_gui-on-windows

• Useful info if you want to run BrainBay under Linux:

  • http://www.autodidacts.io/use-openbci-with-brainbay-on-ubuntu-linux-and-wine/
  • see lso new Linux installation tips below!

• Other related infos:

  • https://sites.google.com/site/biofeedbackpages/brainbay-openbci
  • http://openbci.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/90/brainbay-install-neurofeedback-tutorial
  • http://eeghacker.blogspot.co.at/2013/11/brainbay-eeg-visualization-software.html

• If you want to modify or extend the software, the Visual Studio 2010 project files and all source modules are located in the 'src' folder.

Installing and Using BrainBay under Linux:

• Install Wine (Windows-Emulator): sudo apt install winehq If this does not work: see installation guide for your OS, e.g. https://wiki.winehq.org/Debian
• Install BrainBay: doubleclick BrainBay_Setup.exe, extract the files to a folder
• Determint the Serial interface: Connect the EEG/serial device, use dmesg -w to display the device file (e.g. /dev/ttyUSB0)
• Configure the serial interface as COM Port in Wine: WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wine regedit Add Item COM1 with correct string value for eh device file, e.g. /dev/ttyUSB0 (respectively the actual device name for the serial port) under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wine\Ports
• Activate configuration: wineserver -k
• To get audio (midi) working: sudo apt install timidity
• Start Brainbay with midi support: timidity -iA -Os -B2,8 & wine brainbay.exe

Credits

• Jim Peters for his marvellous filter-works (http://uazu.net/fiview/)
• Jeremy Wilkerson for programming some BrainBay Objects and MinGW/WINE support
• Jeff Molofee (NeHe) for this great OpenGl-tutorial (http://nehe.gamedev.net)
• Don Cross for a well working fft-routine (http://www.intersrv.com/~dcross/fft.html)
• AllenD for showing how to do a thread-oriented Com-Handler in Win32
• Craig Peacock for the the PortTalk I/O-driver, see http://www.beyondlogic.org
• Marcin Kocikowski for the Neurobit Optima-4 Device and support
• Raymond Nguyen for the vector port additions
• Franz Strobl for the OCZ NIA support
• Stephan Gerhard for the QDS parser
• William Croft (OpenBCI) for various fixes, enhancements and blog posts
• Elliot Mebane for valuable feedback and hints for improvements
• Jan-Hendrik Franz for Wine installation tips

Donate

If you like BrainBay and want to support its development, please consider a donation: http://www.shifz.org/brainbay/donate.htm

Further Information

• Find documentation on the project hompage http://brainbay.lo-res.org and in the user and developer manuals.

• I recommend having a look at the OpenEEG site http://openeeg.sf.net, the OpenBCI project: http://www.openbci.org and the Neurobit devices http://www.neurobitsystems.com/

• If you want to share your BrainBay design files for neurofeedback or biofeedback protocols, I would be happy to include them in the release.

Enjoy :-)

Chris Veigl contact: chris@shifz.org