pymindwave

Read and plot data from a NeuroSky MindWave Headset.

This repository contains three components:

• a Python3 module mindwave which communicates with a MindWave headset
• a CLI script which reads data from the above module and publishes them using ZMQ
• a PyQt4-UI which plots available data using Qwt5

There are projects like this already but the best way to get to know a gadget is to program it on your own (and the other projects didn't work for me or where poorly written :))

Description

Get & Install

git clone https://github.com/frans-fuerst/pymindwave.git
pymindwave/reader_example.py

# run a ZMQ based publisher with some messages on the command line
pymindwave/reader_example.py

# run the UI with Qwt plots (example only)
mw_graphs_qt.py

Requirements

• Python Python 3+
• python3-zmq (for both Python2 and Python3 if you have use Python2 for the UI like me)
• pyserial
• PyQt4
• PyQt4.Qwt5
• You might have get needed permissions for your user usermod -a -G dialout <user>

Todo

• read more available data
• support ID based connections
• make single threaded