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OpenEEG
welcome to the wonderful world of our OpenEEG project. here we will record the process and the progress of our project as we work on it.
"we" being taylor and amy, friends in science since second grade, when we first learned to blow things up.
taylor graduated from UA med school in 2003 and is currently doing her psychiatry residency at UT memphis. as an undergrad she received degrees in molecular biology and developmental psychology.
amy graduated from vanderbilt university in 1998 with a degree in mathematics and is currently pursuing a degree in biology with the intention of attending med school in the future. [2006 update: amy is in medical school at UTmemphis where taylor is a resident!]
below is a daily record, with newest entries on top, of our adventures. enjoy.
13 dec 2004
 taylor was reading about eeg waveforms and came across a chapter on artifacts. apparently, one common eeg artifact is ekg data. so, naturally, she stuck the electrodes to her chest to see what would happen. indeed, ekg.
the top signature is the (obvious) ekg, the bottom is just noise--those electrodes weren't plugged in. there's a lot of (expected) noise in the ekg because normal ekg machines eliminate the low-frequency signatures that the eeg is designed to amplify.
11 dec 2004
 SUCCESS! its working, by god, its working. turns out that after assuming that it had to be something that we broke, in actuality it was a com port conflict. imagine. this morning is when the breakthrough occurred. we couldnt have been more thrilled.
shout outs to our new favorite person jim peters of the openEEG list. he is the one who asked, "does that serial port work normally?" thats when taylor realized we really didnt know. congratulations, jim, you have groupies now.
10 dec 2004
 after initial jubilation at getting the microprocessor flashed most successfully, we can get no signal to the computer. and there was much crying and gnashing of teeth. the pictures shows it in that state. we are troubleshooting like a mofo and have posed many questions to the openEEG list and are pinning a lot of our hopes on them.
 and check out the image of our cable. talk about homemade. its not winning any beauty contests, but its doing the most important thing, its actually working. this cable is what we used to flash the firmware on the microprocessor. thank god you just have to do that once. im not sure how long this thing will hold up, especially since taylors cat, mr cheapers, i bound to try and eat it sooner or later.
9 dec 2004
i (amy) arrive in memphis (home of taylor) from nashville for the real work to begin. taylor received the olimex boards far earlier but it was decided to wait till both of us could be there for the fireworks. it seems forever ago when i had to visit a kinkos to send a fax to bulgaria and just hope it got through. it got through.
 this is the first time that i have seen the contraption that taylor has come up with to contain the boards. its pretty ingenius. its a makeup case of all things. but the beauty is its metal but also opens and closes for easy access and has handles - for the busy eeg person on the go!
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