This video, via Michael Allen, demonstrates his awesome mind-over-MIDI DIY project, mindMIDI.
And it’s no Jedi mind trick. mindMIDI may look like an ultra-bong, but it’s actually a mind-controlled MIDI controller.
mindMIDI was based on a Star Wars Force Trainer, a Livid Brain Jr., some light sensors, a flashlight and some macgyvering. The Force Trainer comes with a headset that senses the brain’s electric fields and translates this into control over a ball floating in a tube. The macgyvering comes in translating the ball’s position into MIDI.
mindMIDI is one of the entries in Livid’s Brain Jr. contest.
Check it out and let us know what you think of it!
Wow! Awesome!
Question though, how does his mind generate the fan to lift the ball, i.e. what kinds of thoughts are necessary to generate a response?
Anyway, love it!
It uses alpha waves.
It’s interesting that the Star Wars Force Trainer comes with many prohibitions against hacking the device in the EULA.
okay, out of curiosity, how does one create alpha waves?
Our brain is constantly producing low freq. waves, depending of what we are doing… for example Alpha waves are produced when we are awake and relaxed, they’re around 8-14 Hz.
Well of course! They don’t want it being used to the advantage of the Dark Side. Der!!
Midi-chlorians
for those who don’t have the gear, you can still use concentration to control the rise and fall of a specific body part (males only, though).
Boahhh, combine that with the MidiMind app and you have, errr, well….
again with this — you do realise people have been doing this for a long time —
like since 1970 ..
anyway………….
Collin’s Lab: Brainwave Beats Uploaded on May 5, 2011
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2011/05/09/brainwave-beats/
No one here has heard of the OCZ nia? A much more advanced device with about twenty points of control, all programmable. It hasn’t caught on, I think because of Americans’ inherent distrust of brain power and intellectuals (on whom they depend, none the less.)
Holy crap I know that guy.