Back in 2016 we participated the IEEE Brain Hackathon, organized in Budapest, which focused on the invention and implementation of BCI applications. Our team designed and coded an Arduino-based control system for a robotic arm, which could be connected to a commercially available BCI headset through the internet. We also streamed the picture of a camera mounted on the arm to a Samsung Gear VR headset and simulated the position of the machine in a virtual 3D environment. With this setup the user was able to operate the robotic arm from a different location, seeing the device only through the VR goggles and control it with the BCI headset.
Realizing the shortcomings of current commercially available BCI headsets, we decided to engineer our own device from scratch, which focuses on imaginary movements and P300 spelling. Our expertise in electrical and biomedical engineering, as well as neurosciences and neural electrode developments helped us to receive investment from Hiventures, the most prestigious ventures capital firm in Hungary, in 2017. In the last two years we have created and perfected our prototype and we are looking for testers, who can help us to validate and optimize our invention, which we believe could be the next step in brain-computer interfacing.