Fwd: [ps1-director] Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience opportunity

[Avner Shanan]

Look what just landed on the director's list.

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From: Stephen Hauptman <shau...@bowdoin.edu>
Date: Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:46 PM
Subject: [ps1-director] Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience opportunity
To: in...@pumpingstationone.org

Hello -
I am a laboratory instructor at Bowdoin College. I was introduced to
Arduino last summer, when I worked with an undergraduate designing and
constructing a locomotion tracker for crickets. A YouTube video of our
device can be found at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afND_S_Lp5o
We wanted to find a way to track cricket phonotaxis, so I looked
around for plans, and decided that this would be an excellent use for
the Arduino board. I fed an optical sensor into the board, and wrote
some software for the computer.
This summer, I will be teaching a workshop at the FUN (Faculty for
Undergraduate Neuroscience) Conference at Pomona College at the end of
July, and offered to put together a workshop on how the Arduino
environment could be used in neurophysiology data acquisition, as an
alternative to the absurdly expensive data acquisition systems
commonly used, but out of financial reach for many educators.
When I made the offer, I did so on purely a hypothetical basis; it
seemed like something that could be done, but I had little firsthand
experience. So, like last summer, I started looking around for ideas I
could build on, and I came across your blogs.
I would be interested in demonstrating the sensors that could be
considered neurophysiology-related (the ECG and the GSR), and
hopefully adding an EEG and an EOG module. I would of course give
credit where credit is due to this group of educators that I will be
working with.
I would like to obtain detailed construction details from you, as well
as any associated software code. Would this be possible? I have found
other plans, and have started playing with them, but I very much
appreciate your mission, and that you want to reach out to educators.
I am an educator that could start spreading the word -
I look forward to hearing from you.
Stephen
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Stephen Hauptman
Biology
Bowdoin College
6500 College Station
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 725-3540
shau...@bowdoin.edu

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-Avner Shanan-

[Dan Dumi]

Sounds good, we can probably help this guys, my EKG amplifier can also be used for EEG, just the amplification need to be higher.
Drew can share his GSR shield as well.
Cheers,
Dan

[Dan Daman]

Hi Stephen,

We'll try to help you as much as we can with details on our project. I
worked on the EKG shield and here are some details:
- I used a schematic similar to the one uploaded in our wiki without
the 60 hz filter (schematic is based on designs developed for the
ModularEEG board in the OpenEEG project and simplified by Scott
Olson).
- same schematic can be used for both EkG and EEG by adjusting the
amplification - however power line noise is becoming a problem at
higher amplification ( was quite a problem for EKG as well)
- galvanic insulation is very important for anything that connects to
the human body - we used Bluetooth
- we used the Modular EEG protocol such that we could re-use the
OpenEEG programs such as BrainBay and Electric Guru, some variants are
posted on our discussion list on Google groups (see our wiki for
links) or to the Github repository. It's primarily an analog sampling
program that sends data in 17 bytes packets at 256 samples per second
as sent by OpenEEG hardware.
Please also see our posts on Element 14 for details.

Hope this info would help shed some light, we are currently working on
improving our documentation.

Regards,
Dan Dumitrescu

On Sunday, May 29, 2011, Avner Shanan <ash...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stephen Hauptman <shau...@bowdoin.edu>
> Date: Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:46 PM
> Subject: [ps1-director] Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience opportunity
> To: in...@pumpingstationone.org
>
>
> Hello -
> I am a laboratory instructor at Bowdoin College. I was introduced to
> Arduino last summer, when I worked with an undergraduate designing and
> constructing a locomotion tracker for crickets. A YouTube video of our
> device can be found at:

> The Cricket 'Treadmill' of Hadley Horch <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afND_S_Lp5o>

[Avner Shanan]

Thanks for taking care of that, Dan.

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-Avner Shanan-