Peter Gamma (Physiologist & Director) Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

New interesting device: EmotiBit

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

It can be found in the OpenBCI store. It is a device which works independently of OpenBCI, and can be mounted on our leg. For us personally, the temperature sensor is interesting, and the accelerometer, to build out of it a foot pod.

Unfortunately, we could not find an instruction in the OpenBCI documentation how to connect it to OpenBCI GUI. Somewhere, we found the information, that we could connect the EmotiBit over the AUX input of OpenBCI modules to those. Unfortunately, we forgot, where it was. Alternatively, EmotiBit offers LSL. We can take Adam Feuers version of OpenBCI which offers LSL input and feed our temperature sensor data and accelerometer data over LSL into OpenBCI GUI.

But both AUX input and LSL input let’s hesitate to realize this project soon. There are so many devices of this type that have been developed, but unfortunately, only view have made it to the point of being ready for a clinical study.