Neurocopter, he thinks: Orbit without sugar or as alcohol helps to achieve 100% of the signal

“This is moving wind,” says one.
“It is a branch moving,” objected the other.
The Zen master hears their argument and says: "It is a thought that moves."

434 backers (contributions) collected $ 74,799 (out of the declared $ 10,000). In December 2012, the KickStarter fund-raising from Puzzlebox for its Orbit: Brain-Controlled Helicopter project was successfully completed.

The creators correctly positioned it as a learning / experimental toy with neuro-control with open software, hard and teaching materials . (The regiment of Peter I, too, was at first "amusing", and then the fellow soldiers were already "making fun" at the leading posts of the empire.)

The idea of the product is simple and elegant: the height of the flight of a helicopter depends on the level of electrical activity of your brain.
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(Many thanks to the online store Player.ru , thanks to which the thinker got on the hackspace cooking green table)

Several reasons in favor of buying such a device for the new year:

First , you can proroll / check your colleagues for brain / thoughts (it’s good that the creators put the helicopter in a cage, otherwise there are all sorts of thoughts)

Secondly , this is an excellent reason to figure it out for yourself / tell children on a concrete example what OpenSourse, DIY, BCI is (brain-computer interface)

Proof video

Thirdly , it is a kind of backdoor, thanks to which NeuroSky can get caught in the hands of a cub, and neural interfaces will firmly enter into the life of a future generation. (“Yes, I drove thought helicopters from childhood”)

Fourthly , this thing really trains “something” (I understand “concentration” and “meditation” as something , although I don’t know what ~~anybody is~~ behind these words, but the fact that there is something is hidden is undeniable. Familiar psychophysiologists say that this is not a myogram (electricity from muscles), but a real, though not “professional” signal of EEG (electricity from the brain))

Included: NeuroSky neuro headset, helicopter in a cage, infrared transmitter

To make it work, you still need a tablet or a smartphone. Well, the working brain.
NeuroSky communicates with the tablet via Bluetooth, the helicopter communicates with the tablet via the IR channel via the IR transmitter, the transmitter is plugged into the audio input of the tablet.

NeuroSky can "catch the level" of the so-called "concentration" and "meditation" (they are not mutually exclusive)
In the free application, we set the threshold value "K" and / or "M", to which the helicopter reacts and gives gas.

By myself I will say that this is a cool feeling when a material object (with the exception of its own body) having a mass, size, color, sound, smell, etc., reacts to a change in the pattern of thinking (and not to muscle movement)

Settings make it possible to be democratic and set a response threshold so that everyone can succeed.

There is one "setup": "you concentrate", "you concentrate" and then bang! helicopter with a buzz comes off the surface. What is the concentration, full of delight. We have to catch the flyer, so as not to flop. And also a very audacious challenge, to continue to hold the state when others “give advice” about what is now better to think.

“Focus. Feel the Forces Flow. ”

In the box there are two engines, a battery, a light emitting diode and force transmission gears on the screw shafts

A letter from the creators of neyrolta. Nicely.

On the reverse side - instruction. With a very important point (about which Russian children know from the cradle, but someone passed the secret to the Americans): “On / off solves most problems”

While I ran the instructions diagonally, I noticed the following advice:

So I saw him

And so it is written in the original:

spoiler

Instructions in Russian

Advice on how to better "concentrate"

Advice on how to relax

The Puzzlebox Brainstorms project is looking for enthusiasts, parents, teachers who are ready to promote and experiment neuroscience in the educational process with a game bias. ( software for developers )

Photos from schools

The next development step is control in all directions:

How to solder a helicopter. At first everything was assembled by hand from a standard helicopter and a console.
The video shows the process of creating an IR transmitter, witchcraft with an oscilloscope, and so on:

List of publications about helicopter

American version of Urgant show:

CEO Puzzlebox Speech at Sandbox Summit at MIT:

Beautiful photos