THIS EXTERNAL WILL NOT WORK WITH THE NEUROSKY MINDWAVE. IT WILL ONLY WORK WITH THE OLD BLUETOOTH NEUROSKY MINDSET. I DO NOT HAVE A MINDWAVE AND HAVE NO PLANS ON SUPPORTING IT.
by Kyle Machulis <kyle@nonpolynomial.com> Nonpolynomial Labs - http://www.nonpolynomial.com
np_mindset is an external for either Max/MSP or Puredata to receive information from the Neurosky Mindset EEG Development Kit.
Portability of source between Max and Pd is available thanks to flext
More information about the Neurosky Mindset can be found at
ThinkGearStreamParser.c/h and thinkgear.h, while free, are distributed as part of the MindSet SDK, and will need to be retreived from the Neurosky developer site. The SDK is available for free at
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Put the .mxo(Mac)/.mxe(Windows) or .pd_[platform] file in a directory that Max/Pd will search for externals (Max: Options → File Preferences → Other Folders, Pd: Options → Paths)
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Max: Put the .help (Max4) or .maxhelp (Max5) file in the max-help directory of your Max/MSP installation
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Entering a wrong port name may cause Max to crash. Make sure you’ve got the device on and bonded before hitting the start button. This will be fixed soon.
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Currently the I/O thread is taking up a TON of CPU because of the polling frequency (2ms). There’s a good chance the next version of the external will change how the raw wave output works so I can reduce this. So be warned.
np_mindset is covered under the GPL License due to Flext. If you can unwind it from flext somehow, consider it BSD.
flext source code are covered under the GPL v2 License. np_mindset is BSD, but since it’s based on flext, it’s GPL.
flext - C++ layer for Max/MSP and pd (pure data) externals Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Thomas Grill This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. In the official flext distribution, the GNU General Public License is in the file gpl.txt --------------------