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I finally stopped gluing electrodes to my scalp after a lab tech called my setup a mess
Back when I first started messing with EEG headsets in my garage, I was using conductive gel and taping electrodes down with medical tape, and it worked okay for a while. Then a tech at a small clinic in Austin watched me struggle for 20 minutes to get a clean signal and said, "You're fighting the hardware, not reading the brain." She showed me how a dry electrode array with a simple headband cut my setup time from 20 minutes to about 3, and the signal was cleaner too. I still tinker with the gel ones sometimes, but that one comment made me rethink how I approach every brain-computer interface project now. Has anyone else had a moment where a random expert just flipped your whole method upside down?
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elizabeth43818d ago
At least the lab tech was nice about it instead of just watching you suffer in silence for another half hour. I had a math professor in college who looked at my notes, laughed, and told me I was doing calculus with one hand tied behind my back. Turns out there was a much simpler way and I had been making it hard on myself for no reason. Funny how one person saying the obvious thing can save you months of pointless work.
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