Mindwave Mobile EEG Headset Data Object Stream on MacOS Sierra Version 10.12.6 Node.js

Here’s a quick-and-dirty way to test your Mindwave Mobile EEG Headset on Mac OS Sierra (v10.12.6). The ‘mindwave’ npm module provides an out-of-the-box example that I’ve tested on the current platform.  At the end of this brief tutorial, you should see data in the following format printing out once per second:

Requires: Node.js, yarn(npm upgraded), Mindwave Mobile EEG headset, Mindwave Mobile EEG Dongle

Open your terminal and follow these steps:

1. Make a folder, cd into it
2. run ‘yarn add mindwave’
3. copy the example from the node module into your root: ‘cp node_modules/mindwave/example.js ./example.js’
4. run ‘yarn add kefir’ (this lib doesn’t come down automatically)
5. run ‘node example.js’

That, if you can believe it, is it.

Thanks for reading!