From mistasteve at gmail.com Mon Sep 3 19:08:35 2012 From: mistasteve at gmail.com (SDC) Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2012 19:08:35 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Upcoming events, Raspberry Pi and such Message-ID: <685D8A72-4A6E-4819-88BE-752BCD86E72C@gmail.com> Hi all, quick reminder that we're doing the monthly Raspberry Pi meetup tomorrow, 7-9pm. Also the Open House is happening Saturday and as always Wednesday night is public meeting night. Also, for both members and non-members who might be interested, our neighbors to the South at LVL1 are having a Sumobot tournament and Halloween party, so round up a team and go for glory: http://www.lvl1.org/2012/09/03/3rd-annual-sumobot-tournament-and-halloween-party-102712/ Steve From jtillots at cogbots.com Wed Sep 5 13:57:25 2012 From: jtillots at cogbots.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 13:57:25 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Public meeting tonight Message-ID: There's a public meeting tonight from 7pm until 10pm. We've recently rearranged the space to make way for all the new tools we've been getting. We'll also be cleaning up for the open house on Saturday. Also, I've recently acquired 200 bouncy balls and I'm looking for project ideas. Maybe build a pinball machine? Anway, see you there! Jenett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20120905/b8ae499e/attachment.html From jtillots at cogbots.com Fri Sep 7 23:57:24 2012 From: jtillots at cogbots.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 23:57:24 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Change in the Circuit Board Printing Workshop Message-ID: We have decided to hold the Circuit Board Printing Workshop on September 18th - a week later than we originally planned - to give us more time to advertise it. Check out our home page at http://www.bloominglabs.org/ for the specifics and spread the word! Jenett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20120907/4a06480a/attachment.html From dosman at bloominglabs.org Sun Sep 9 07:33:59 2012 From: dosman at bloominglabs.org (dosman at bloominglabs.org) Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 07:33:59 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Bloominglabs top article on HT this morning Message-ID: <13FED954-F0EA-4C78-9E83-30EFA473E103@bloominglabs.org> Greetings! Yesterday was our end-of-summer open house which went over very well. Thanks to everyone who pulled it off! At the moment Bloominglabs is the top article at the Hearald Times Online, check it out! http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2012/09/09/news.hackers-find-home-where-they-can-create.sto Thanks! -Nathan From jtillots at cogbots.com Mon Sep 10 14:04:23 2012 From: jtillots at cogbots.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:04:23 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Changes to the Circuit Board Printing Workshop Message-ID: We have cancelled the Circuit Board Printing Workshop for September 11th and will hold it instead on September 18th. Make sure to spread the word to anyone you know who was planning on attending tomorrow. We didn't get anyone to sign up except a few members, so we don't expect to have anyone from the public show up. All of our calendars have been updated as well. With the extra week we hope we can advertise it better and get more people to sign up. Sorry for the inconvenience and hope to see you at the workshop next week! Jenett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20120910/b5094dcd/attachment.html From jtillots at cogbots.com Wed Sep 12 10:51:23 2012 From: jtillots at cogbots.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:51:23 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Public meeting today from 7pm until 10pm Message-ID: The space will be open from 7pm until 10pm today for our public meeting. I will be there at 6:30pm if any member wants to come early and discuss Bloominglabs business. Also, it's close to the 15th of the month, so pay your dues if you haven't already. I'm working on a pachinko machine to use as our piece of the Rube Goldberg device that Wonderlab is building this Saturday. The event is from 1-4:30pm. If you are a Bloominglabs member and want to come, please drop me an email. 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If you want to be part of the fun, feel free to stop by and give him a hand. > > Jenett > _______________________________________________ > Bloominglabs-members mailing list > Bloominglabs-members at bloominglabs.org > http://www.bloominglabs.org/mailman/listinfo/bloominglabs-members From jtillots at cogbots.com Mon Sep 17 16:52:44 2012 From: jtillots at cogbots.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:52:44 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Circuit printing workshop tomorrow 6pm-9pm Message-ID: Bloominglabs has a circuit board printing workshop is tomorrow from 6pm to 9pm. Spots are filling up fast, so if you are interested in taking the workshop, please contact us soon. You can reserve your spot by emailing contact at bloominglabs.org. You can find more information about the workshop on our website: http://bloominglabs.org/ Jenett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20120919/0100bd42/attachment.html From jtillots at cogbots.com Mon Sep 24 08:57:49 2012 From: jtillots at cogbots.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:57:49 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] EEG talk today at IU Message-ID: This Cognitive Science Colloquium is about EEG and should be of interest to makers. I know I've talked to several people at Bloominglabs about EEG and I know a couple of our members have their own EEG devices. Plus, I'm travelling and can't go. This talk is open to the public, so go and then tell me all about it! Jenett ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Our first Cognitive Science Colloquium Lecture of the semester is today, September 24, 2012. It will run from 4:00-5:00 PM in Psychology Room 101 at 1101 E. 10th St. Speaker: Scott Makeig, University of California San Diego Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG), the recording of electric potentials produced by the partial areal synchrony of electrical field activity in cortical neuropile, was the earliest and is still the most widely known, most portable, most relatively low-cost, and most non-invasive brain imaging modality. However, for a variety of reasons until recently EEG imaging has not received adequate attention from engineers and applied mathematicians to the important question of how to extract more of its biologically and psychologically relevant information. Today, neurologists still typically review clinical EEG 'squiggles' by visual inspection alone, and most psychophysiologists consider only peaks in scalp-recorded event-related potential (ERP) averages - by so doing ignoring 90-99% of the recorded EEG signals. It is now generally accepted that spatiotemporal changes in EEG activity patterns correlate with changes in cognitive arousal, attention, intention, evaluation, and the like, thereby providing a high temporal-resolution ?window on the brain/mind.? However, the biological mechanisms that link EEG patterns to these and other aspects of cognition are not understood in much detail. In the last two decades, more adequate signal processing methods, made feasible by ever-faster computers, have greatly increased the amount of meaningful information about brain / mental function that can be mined from high-density EEG signals. My laboratory, SCCN, continues to develop the open-source the EEGLAB signal processing environment for Matlab (Delorme & Makeig, 2004) that in particular implements use of EEG source imaging based on independent component analysis (ICA) and time/frequency analysis. We are also working to develop a new imaging modality, mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI), that combines portable high-density EEG ('What the brain does.') with full-body motion capture, eye gaze tracking, and behavioral response recording ('What the brain controls?') to better understand and monitor what might be called our 'natural cognition' that guides and evaluated our naturally motivated actions -- and interactions. Using MoBI, macroscopic changes in cortical field synchrony, including interactions between multiple brain areas timed precisely to our actions (and interactions), can be detected and modeled, hopefully leading to better basic understanding of brain dynamics supporting our daily living (and their pathologies). In coming years, as well, more adequate, near real-time EEG signal processing for feature extraction and state prediction or recognition, in combination with fast-developing non-invasive, dry, wireless and wearable EEG and other biosensor systems, will likely produce meaningful 3-D functional brain imaging and brain-computer interface (BCI) applications for a wide range of purposes. Thus EEG, the oldest brain imaging modality, is rapidly becoming a 'new' and important imaging modality, both for basic neuroscience and for the quickly evolving field of 'neurotechnology' applications. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20120924/d6784fb7/attachment-0001.html From moctodliamg at gmail.com Mon Sep 24 10:00:34 2012 From: moctodliamg at gmail.com (Seth Frey) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:00:34 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] EEG talk today at IU In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: And I'll be at a smaller-scale student meeting with him afterwards if you have any technical questions to feed/seed me with. best, seth. Graduate Student, Cognitive Science and Informatics, Indiana University ?? http://enfascination.com ?? http://bloomingtoncoop.org ?? On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Jenett Tillotson wrote: > This Cognitive Science Colloquium is about EEG and should be of interest to > makers. I know I've talked to several people at Bloominglabs about EEG and I > know a couple of our members have their own EEG devices. > > Plus, I'm travelling and can't go. This talk is open to the public, so go > and then tell me all about it! > > Jenett > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Our first Cognitive Science Colloquium Lecture of the semester is today, > September 24, 2012. It will run from 4:00-5:00 PM in Psychology Room 101 at > 1101 E. 10th St. > > Speaker: Scott Makeig, University of California San Diego > > Abstract: Electroencephalography (EEG), the recording of electric potentials > produced by the partial areal synchrony of electrical field activity in > cortical neuropile, was the earliest and is still the most widely known, > most portable, most relatively low-cost, and most non-invasive brain imaging > modality. However, for a variety of reasons until recently EEG imaging has > not received adequate attention from engineers and applied mathematicians to > the important question of how to extract more of its biologically and > psychologically relevant information. Today, neurologists still typically > review clinical EEG 'squiggles' by visual inspection alone, and most > psychophysiologists consider only peaks in scalp-recorded event-related > potential (ERP) averages - by so doing ignoring 90-99% of the recorded EEG > signals. It is now generally accepted that spatiotemporal changes in EEG > activity patterns correlate with changes in cognitive arousal, attention, > intention, evaluation, and the like, thereby providing a high > temporal-resolution ?window on the brain/mind.? However, the biological > mechanisms that link EEG patterns to these and other aspects of cognition > are not understood in much detail. In the last two decades, more adequate > signal processing methods, made feasible by ever-faster computers, have > greatly increased the amount of meaningful information about brain / mental > function that can be mined from high-density EEG signals. My laboratory, > SCCN, continues to develop the open-source the EEGLAB signal processing > environment for Matlab (Delorme & Makeig, 2004) that in particular > implements use of EEG source imaging based on independent component analysis > (ICA) and time/frequency analysis. We are also working to develop a new > imaging modality, mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI), that combines portable > high-density EEG ('What the brain does.') with full-body motion capture, eye > gaze tracking, and behavioral response recording ('What the brain > controls?') to better understand and monitor what might be called our > 'natural cognition' that guides and evaluated our naturally motivated > actions -- and interactions. Using MoBI, macroscopic changes in cortical > field synchrony, including interactions between multiple brain areas timed > precisely to our actions (and interactions), can be detected and modeled, > hopefully leading to better basic understanding of brain dynamics supporting > our daily living (and their pathologies). In coming years, as well, more > adequate, near real-time EEG signal processing for feature extraction and > state prediction or recognition, in combination with fast-developing > non-invasive, dry, wireless and wearable EEG and other biosensor systems, > will likely produce meaningful 3-D functional brain imaging and > brain-computer interface (BCI) applications for a wide range of purposes. > Thus EEG, the oldest brain imaging modality, is rapidly becoming a 'new' and > important imaging modality, both for basic neuroscience and for the quickly > evolving field of 'neurotechnology' applications. > > > _______________________________________________ > Bloominglabs-announce mailing list > Bloominglabs-announce at bloominglabs.org > http://www.bloominglabs.org/mailman/listinfo/bloominglabs-announce >