Acknowledgments for significant contributions which are helpful for meditation research

Last Updated on January 21, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

We would like to thank Rob ter Horst, Max Candoica, Rainer Blind, Milind Desai, Robert Oostenveld, Richard R. Davidson, Arnaud Delorme, Krisztián Hofstädter, Scott W. Harden for his sound card ECG, the 14th Dalai Lama, David Goleman, Mingyur Rinpoche, Matthieu Ricard, Peter H. Charlton, Talha Iqbal for his YouTube Python Respiration Rate PPG & ECG instructions, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Sadhguru, Yogi Bhajan, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Paul Van Gent, B. Rael Cahn, Dr. Cody Rall, James Clutterbuck, How to Electronics from India, Jukka Happonen from Polar Electro Oy Research Center, Dr. Evan L. Matthews from Montclair State University, Hugo Plácido da Silva from BITalino and his co-workers for their DIY EEG cap YouTube instruction, John Park from Adafruit for his Pyloton CircuitPython bike computer, Dave Lusty for the EventHubApp Accure Cloud PowerPi instruction, Ryan Hampton for balenaHealth, Roger at Moxy for his instruction for a device how to stream sports sensor data to Matlab, Reto Röllin from Infinity Flow for his legally protected Raspberri Pi ANT+ MQTT, Liz Clark for the Adafruit DIY step counter, Alexandre Barachant for Muse LSL, Andreas Spiess for his YouTube instruction how to build a cheap 433 – MQTT Gateway RFLink, Arduino, ESP8266, Node-Red, Weather Station as an example for a multi-sensor device, wibble from the Pine64 forum for his Pinephone support. DFROBOT for the Lattepanda V1, Zindel Segal, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Antoine Lutz, Adam Feuer for his HackEEG, Lybron Sobers for his Apple Health Auto Export app, Udo Berndt from smart-live.net, A J Keller & Alex Castillo for WIFI the Neurosity Crown, Interaxon for their hardware, William Croft from OpenBCI, for his support for us how to build EEG caps from individual components, Conor Russomanno for his 20 000 USD OpenBCI Galea in which he shows us how much money can be made out of an OpenBCI device, Aliexpress stores for most affordable OpenBCI modules up to 16 channels, Jonathan Savage from fellrnr.com for his reviews about the Stryd and treadmill calibration, Udo Berndt for his Tutorial on the YouTube channel smart-live.net How to Visualize Apple Health data in Home Assistant, Ryan Hampton from balena for balenaHealth which opens up a new sensor patway for the Polar H10 chest strap and other BLE sensors from balenaHealth to balenaCloud to balenaHome Assistant, and many more.

Without their contributions, the Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS) would not have been possible, which is still a private project on Peter Gammas personal website.