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Best of Maker Faire - Final day of our Maker Shed sale
MAKE Magazine —
... Brain Machine Kit Hack your Brain! Get comfortable, put on the glasses and headphones, close your eyes (the LEDs are bright!), and flick the power switch. Enjoy the hallucinations as you drift into deep meditation, ponder your inner world, and then come out after the 14-minute program feeling fabulous. Sound and Light Machines (SLMs) produce sound and light pulses at brain wave frequencies, which help people sleep, wake up, meditate, or experience whatever state of consciousness the machine is programmed for. ...
PATENT-B-GONE! Inventor Mitch Altman explains why he open-sourced his TV-B-Gone kit
MAKE Magazine —
... key chains, since not everyone wants to build their own. Everybody wins. In the words of my brother the patent lawyer, “The old way of patent law is to think: ‘This is mine and I’m going to keep it.’ This may have some advantages, but with open source you can share and bring more creative minds to the process. What’s really nice is that you don’t have to give up all your rights. With open source you can have the best of all worlds.”
Mitch Altman’s next products, based on the “Brain Machine” article he wrote for MAKE, Volume 10, are also open source. ...
TV-B-Gone: Not Your Average Open Source Success Story [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... Who says hardware can't benefit from the open source model? Altman's story is an interesting example of how many things can benefit from community contributions. I'm not so sure about his next project, though: The Brain Machine. Sounds like a good way to induce a seizure. ...
A conversation with Mitch Altman
MAKE Magazine —
... with Mitch Altman. At the end of a very busy weekend, he was pretty beat, but I was struck with what a wonderful and peaceful guy Mitch is.
Mitch Altman creates kits that inspire people to make things. "If we don't make things on our own, then we're stuck with what the corporations want to give us....If we make our own things, we can make whatever we want. If we can imagine it, we can make it."
Check out Mitch Altman and his TV-B-Gone and Brain Machine projects.
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Unfocused Brain: hallucination generation trance machine
MAKE Magazine —
James Delaney's created The Unfocused Brain, an interesting variation on Mitch Altman's Brain Machine:
This program and schematic is designed to flash LED's in certain brain wave inducing patterns. The device is controlled by four buttons that switch the generator between Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Theta frequencies.
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After building and trying out the SLM I noticed that certain transitions from one state to another created particularly strong visual hallucinations.
My project is a deviation from the ...
Brain wave specs made from kit
Boing Boing —
I really like the way George's brain machine spectacles turned out! (More pics here.) He built them using Mitch Altman's Brain Machine Kit, available from Maker Shed.
