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VIRTUAL BR41N.IO
HACKATHON

The BCI & Neurotech Spring School 2024*

‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌  27-28 April, 2024

 

 

*BR41N.IO and Spring School 2024 offer more than 140 hours of online courses and lectures. Perfectly designed to integrate it in your curriculum. Read more about g.tec's Unicorn Education Kit.

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BR41N.IO is a brainstorming and collaborative marathon designed to be a learning experience for  developers, technologists, engineers, students, artists, and scientists who cram and build brain-computer interface (BCI) applications together in teams.

Who can participate?

Anyone can participate who has interests in BMI, BCI, robotics, AR, VR, machine learning, computing, sensors, human-machine interface systems, control, signal processing, big data, haptics, rehabilitation, and similar areas. Even better: it is for FREE.

Participants do not have to be a BMI expert to participate on a team! Interdisciplinary teams with a combination of BMI and non-BMI skills are often successful in building solutions and producing working prototypes. 
 

I am a Unicorn Hybrid Black owner. How can I participate?

Do you have a Unicorn Hybrid Black at home or at your University/Institution? Great! Let's put together a team of students and participate with your own Unicorn Hybrid Black at the virtual BR41N.IO Hackathon. Our gaming or programming projects are most suitable for you.

Can I submit a different project?

Professional teams can also participate to develop applications during the BR41N.IO Designers' Hackathon to demonstrate full potential of some of the sponsored hardware/software.

If you are looking for additional skills from other team members, your project will be included among the BR41N.IO projects below for application. Submit your project to contact@br41n.io.

What's in there for me?

Be creative, think outside the box. The BR41N.IO Designers' Hackathon is fun and gets you to network and collaborate with other Geeks. The best BR41N.IO projects will be awarded with cash prizes:

GAMING PROJECT PRIZES:

  • 1st BR41N.IO Prize: $ 1000
  • 2nd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 600
  • 3rd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 400
     

PROGRAMMING & ARTISTIC PROJECT PRIZES:

  • 1st BR41N.IO Prize: $ 1000
  • 2nd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 600
  • 3rd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 400

     

DATA ANALYSIS PRIZES:

  • 1st BR41N.IO Prize: $ 1000
  • 2nd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 600
  • 3rd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 400
     


 

 

Join the virtual Spring School!

g.tec's Spring School 2024 is the educational forerunner of the Virtual BR41N.IO Hackathon. Therefore, it's highly beneficial if you join the Spring School from April 22 - May 1, 2024 virtually. Why? Because the Spring School is an online education event, where you acquire all the knowledge you need to be perfectly prepared to compete with your fellows at the BR41N.IO Hackathon competition and create your own BCI applications!

Sign up for a BR41N.IO project!

There are several predefined projects which you can choose to work on. Below, the projects are described in detail including hard- and software requirements. 

The Unicorn Hybrid Black and the Unicorn Suite should be used to join a Gaming or a Programming Project. But, you can use your own hardware and software for the BR41N.IO hackathon. In case you don't have a BCI Headset, we recommend to join an Offline Data Analysis Project. 

Meet your team virtually!

We will connect you with the team members of your project. Create your own virtual meeting space using Skype, Google Hangouts, Zoom, etc. to start working on your ideas. 

Stay connected with us via Discord!

Join g.tec's official Discord Server to connect with your team members! While you work on your groundbreaking new BCI applications, we are here to answer all the questions that might come up and support you wherever we can. 

Present your projects virtually and win!

You will be invited to present your results virtually via Zoom. Prepare yourself to explain what you did, what the results are and to show a demonstration (live or with a video) to the international audience and jury. 

BCI PRINCIPLES

 

Brain-computer interfaces are realized by 4 different principles:

slow waves

steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP)

motor imagery (MI)

evoked potentials (EP)

In the BR41N.IO Hackathon Series, motor imagery and EP based systems
are mostly used to control the applications:

 

In the case of the motor imagery application, participants have to imagine e.g. left or right hand movement to produce an event-related desynchronization over the sensorimotor cortex. This is basically an amplitude change of the alpha and beta regions of the EEG.

In the case of EPs, the BCI system is showing different flashing icons and the user has to attend to the icon he wants to select. When the icon flashes on the computer screen, than a P300 wave is produced in the brain and the BCI system is able to detect it.
 

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FOR UNICORN HYBRID BLACK OWNERS

 

Do you have a Unicorn Hybrid Black, a Unicorn Naked BCI or the Unicorn Education Kit at your university or at your lab? Great! Let's put together 40 students in teams of 5 students and let them participate and compete against other international students at this virtual BR41N.IO Hackathon.

As Unicorn Education Kit owner, you'll qualify as a Hosting Institution for this BR41N.IO Hackathon. This means, you'll get a speaking slot during the hackathon and raise awareness for your university.

Unicorn Education Kit is perfectly designed for professors who teach brain-computer interfaces, biomedical engineering or signal processing.

It comes with 8 Unicorn Hybrid Black devices including full access to the Unicorn Suite software.

GET YOURS 

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Unicorn Hybrid Black is a wearable 8-channel EEG device that measures high-quality EEG signals from your brain.

It is perfectly suitable for creating your own brain-computer interface or neuroscience applications.

GET YOURS 

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SCHEDULE

Time Zone: Vienna Time

 

Saturday April 27, 2024

9:00 BR41N.IO BCI Hackathon Introduction – A Hackathon Series by g.tec medical engineering
Christoph Guger, g.tec medical engineering GmbH  (AT)
9:30 Unicorn Hybrid Black & Unicorn Headband Demonstration
Martin Walchshofer, Leo Schreiner, g.tec medical engineering (AT)
10:30 Unicorn Unity Gaming Interface
Michele Romani, Bernard Wong, g.tec medical engineering (AT)
11:00 Motor Imagery, P300, SSVEP, ECoG datasets
Sebastian Sieghartsleitner, Johannes Grünwald, g.tec medical engineering  (AT)
11:30 Start BR41N.IO Hackathon with Hosting Institutes & Team Formation
Christoph Guger (AT), Maryam Alimardani (NL), Luis Emilio Bruni (DK), Niels Erik Raursø (DK), Abdelkader N. Belkacem (UAE),  Arianna Di Bernardo (IT), Enrico Sansone (IT), Lijiljana Trajkovic (CA), Cosmin Bonchis (RO), Camil Mihaescu (RO), Javier Mauricio Antelis Ortiz (MX), Leonardo Ferrisi (USA), Nakhon Pathom (TH), Ferat Sahin (USA), Zhida Li (USA), David Grayden (AU), Angelica Peer (IT), Susan Boehnke (CA), Saman Sargolzaei (USA), Luca Turchet (IT), David Wiehls (CN)
12:00

All day hacking

16:00

Neurotechnology and the Community: learnings from the decade and the path forward
Alex Higuera, NeuroTechX (USA) 

24:00 All night hacking

Sunday April 28, 2024

6:00 All night & day hacking
14:00 Project Presentations of Each Team
18.00

BR41N.IO Ceremony
 Jury members

18:30  BR41N.IO Participation Certificates
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HOSTING INSTITUTIONS

 

Universities who are proud owners of the Unicorn Education Kit automatically qualify as hosting institution. Official hosting institutions are fully embedded in the BR41N.IO Designers' Hackathons. Boost your institution’s visibility and awareness and benefit from a big audience.

Hosting institutions provide on-site access to EEG devices and brain-computer interface technology that you would need for programming projects. Just let us know at which hosting institition you would like to participate during the BR41N.IO Hackathon.

G.TEC
AUSTRIA

g.tec medical engineering GmbH
Dr. Christoph Guger

Schiedlberg, Austria

VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM

Department of Computer Science
Prof. Maryam Alimardani
Amsterdam, Netherlands

AALBORG UNIVERSITY

MeCIS Media Cognition & Interactive Systems
Prof. Luis Emilio Bruni, Niels Erik Raursø

København , Denmark

TILBURG      UNIVERSITY

 Cognitive Science and AI                                     Enigma Study Association
 Tilburg, Netherlands

UAE UNIVERSITY
ABU DHABI

  United Arab Emirates University
  Prof. Abdelkader N. Belkacem

  Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

WEST UNIVERSITY TIMISOARA

Mathematics Faculty & Fine art and Design
Prof. Cosmin Bonchis & Prof. Camil Mihaescu
Timisoara, Romania

 TEC                           DE MONTERREY 

 Campus Guadalajara
 Javier Mauricio Antelis Ortiz, PhD.
 Jalisco, Mexico

NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Vancouver Campus, Department of Computer Science, Dr. Zhida Li
Vancouver, Canada

FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN-BOLZANO

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Prof. Angelika Peer
Bozen, Italy

CHONGWEN CULTURE AND EDUCATION

Hangzhou Chongwen Century City Experimental School, David Wiehls
Hangzhou, China

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MARTIN

Brain Autonomy and Resiliency (BAR) Lab, Prof. Saman Sargolzaei
Martin, Tennessee, USA

UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO

Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions (CIMIL) Lab, Prof. Luca Turchet
Povo Trento, Italy

UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE

PSI Research Group, Prof. Humberto Loaiza Correa, Wilfredo Alfonso & David Reyes 
Cali, Colombia

LULEÅ TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET

Brain Analysis Research Project, Prof. Foteini Liwicki & Rajkumar Saini, PhD. 
Lulea, Sweden          

PSNC                FUTURE LABS

Poznan Supercomuting & Networking Center, Adam Olszewski PhD. Ewelina Moszyk and Szymon Kupinski Poznan, Poland                         

QUEEN’S    UNIVERSITY

NeuroTech Discovery Lab, Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Dr. Susan Boehnke, PhD
Ontario, Canada

UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE 

Department of Biomedical Engineering
Prof. David Grayden
Melbourne, Australia

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JURY

 

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Christoph Guger (AT)
g.tec medical engineering GmbH

 

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Maryam Alimardani (NL)
 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

 

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Camil Mihaescu (RO)
West University of Timisoara

 

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Angelika Peer (IT)
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

 

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Susan Boehnke (CA)
Queen's University

 

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Saman Sargolzaei (USA)
University of Tennessee at Martin

 

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BCI GAMING PROJECTS*

*These projects require a Unicorn Hybrid Black or a BCI system. 
 

Shooting Games

Create a shooting game that can be controlled with a brain-computer interface and shoot the targets with your EEG signals.  

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Unity Interface, Unity
participants: 2 groups, 5-8 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills (C#/Unity)

Registration

 

 Racing Games

You like speeding with your car but it's not safe in reality? Then you can create a racing game in which you can speed as much as you want with your EEG signals.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Unity Interface, Unity
participants: 2 groups, 5-8 people per group
Skills: Basic programming skills (C#/Unity)

Registration

 

Adventure Games

Start the adventure and begin the journey to treasure hunting. You can choose the elements in the game with your EEG signals.

soft-/hardware specifications: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Unity Interface, Unity
participants: 2 groups, 5-8 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills (C#/Unity)

Registration

 

Your Gaming Project

You are invited to create your own gaming project for this hackathon. You have a Unicorn Hybrid Black or any other kind of BCI to create your game.

soft-/hardware specifications: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Unity Interface, Unity
participants: 2 groups, 5-8 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills (C#/Unity)

Registration

 

‌‌ Sports Games

Whether you want to play Tennis or Bowling or any sports game virtually, you can use your EEG signals to hit the shot.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Unity Interface, Unity
participants: 2 groups, 5-8 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills (C#/Unity)

Registration

 

Card Games

You like playing cards? Then crank it up a notch and play cards using brain computer interfaces. You can choose the items in your game with your EEG signals.

soft-/hardware specifications: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Unity Interface, Unity
participants: 2 groups, 5-8 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills (C#/Unity)

Registration

 

 Educational Games

You can create an educational game in which you can choose the options with your EEG signals.

soft-/hardware specifications: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Unity Interface, Unity
participants: 2 groups, 5-8 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills (C#/Unity)

Registration

 

 Play Games

Take the Platformer Game, Brain Buddies Game, Puzzle Game, Blondy Check or another BCI Game and play by using your brainwaves only. 

soft-/hardware specifications: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Naked BCI, Unicorn Unity Interface
participants: 2 groups, 5-8 people per group
skills: Gaming skills

Registration

 

‌‌ Strategy Games

The decision making in strategy games can be performed with EEG signals. The strategy games range from chess to war games.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Unity Interface, Unity
participants: 2 groups, 5-8 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills (C#/Unity)

Registration

 

‌‌ Puzzle Games

Puzzle games are fun but why bothering using your fingers. Move the items in your game with your EEG signals.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Unity Interface, Unity
participants: 2 groups, 5-8 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills (C#/Unity)

Registration

 

 Rehabilitation Games

Create a Unity based game that can be used for rehabilitation purposes.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Unity Interface, Unity
participants: 2 groups, 5-8 people per group
Skills: Basic programming skills (C#/Unity)

Registration

 

BCI PROGRAMMING PROJECTS*

*These projects require a Unicorn Hybrid Black or a BCI system. 
 

‌‌‌‌ Orthosis Control

It is possible to control a 3D printed orthosis using a Unicorn Hybrid Black with motor imagery. It is possible to move an orthosis by thinking about left or right hand motion. Watch the Orthosis Control video.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Speller, bring your own orthosis or use Unity instead
participants: 2 groups, 5-8 people per group
Skills: Basic programming skills (Matlab, Simulink), basic graphics programming skills with Unity

Registration ‌‌

 

Your Hacking Project

You are invited to create your own programming project for this hackathon. You'll have all the BCI headsets or you bring your own BCI to design and program your own fully functional headset.

soft-/hardware specifications: Unicorn Hybrid Black, tbd
participants: 2 groups, 5-8 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills

Registration

 

Towards Unicorn Hybrid Black Integration with ACAT

Intel’s ACAT is a free open-source platform originally developed for Prof. Stephen Hawking. Develop a standalone ERP-based application using .NET, C# and SharpDX. This will be integrated by Intel engineers in ACAT and put into open source. Visit our website for more detail, Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (intel.com).

soft-/hardware specifications: ACAT Toolkit, Unicorn Hybrid Black
participants: 1 group, 5-8 people
skills: Basic programming skills (C#, .Net, SharpDX)

Registration

 

‌‌ Dream Painting

If you want to create a Dream Painting,  you have to wear a Unicorn Brain Interface while you sleep. When you wake up, you are able to create a picture based on EEG signals.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Painting
participants: 2 groups, 5-8 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills (Matlab, Simulink)

Registration

 

‌‌ Smartphone

Control the apps on your smartphone with a  brain-computer interface.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Suite
participants: 1 group, 5-8 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills

Registration

 

Connect Your Brain to Chat GPT

Become a superhuman that knows the answers to all the questions by connecting Unicorn Hybrid Black to Chat GPT. 

soft-/hardware specifications: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Suite
participants: 2 group, 3-5 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills 

Registration

 

‌‌‌ fNIRS and EEG Control

The team can use fNIRS (functional near-infrared spectroscopy) and EEG simultaneously to control BCI applications.

soft-/hardware: g.Nautilus fNIRS
participants: 1 group, 5-8 people per group
skills: Basic programming skills (Matlab, Simulink)

Registration

 

Intel Assistive Context Aware Toolkit (ACAT)

Intel’s ACAT is a free open-source platform originally developed for Prof. Stephen Hawking. It enables people with disabilities to communicate. The latest release includes BCI capabilities. Developers are encouraged to expand its capabilities. Visit our website for more detail, Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (intel.com)

soft-/hardware specifications: ACAT Toolkit, Unicorn Hybrid Black
participants: 1 group, 3-5 people
skills: Basic programming skills (C#, .Net)

Registration

 

BCI DATA ANALYSIS PROJECTS* 

*no hardware required.
 

‌‌‌ Stroke Rehab Data Analysis

Analyze a motor imagery BCI data-set from a chronic stroke patient in order to optimize pre-processing, feature extraction and classification algorithms. Compare your results with state-of-the-art algorithms.

soft-/hardware: MATLAB or other signal processing platform that is able to read in the MATLAB matrix
participants: 3 groups, 3-5 people per group
skills: signal processing skills

Registration ‌‌‌

 

‌‌ P300 Speller Data Analysis

Analyze a visual P300 BCI data-set from a healthy person in order to optimize pre-processing, feature extraction and classification algorithms. Compare your results with state-of-the-art algorithms.

soft-/hardware: MATLAB or other signal processing platform that is able to read in the MATLAB matrix
participants: 3-5 people per group
skills: signal processing skills

Registration ‌‌

 

‌‌ ECoG Video Watching Analysis

Analyze an ECoG data-set from an epilepsy person watching a video. The ECoG was recorded from regions on the temporal base that is coding colors, black/white, shapes, faces and much more. Try to optimize pre-processing, feature extraction and classification algorithms. Compare your results with state-of-the-art algorithms.

soft-/hardware: MATLAB or other signal processing platform that is able to read in the MATLAB matrix
participants: 3-5 people per group
skills: signal processing skills

Registration ‌‌

 

‌‌‌ Unresponsive Wakefullness Syndrom Data Analysis

Analyze a vibro-tactile P300 BCI data-set from a patient with disorders of consciousness in order to optimize pre-processing, feature extraction and classification algorithms. Compare your results with state-of-the-art algorithms.

soft-/hardware: MATLAB or other signal processing platform that is able to read in the MATLAB matrix
participants: 3 groups, 3-5 people per group
skills: signal processing skills

Registration

 

‌‌‌ SSVEP Data Analysis

Analyze an SSVEP BCI data-set from a healthy person in order to optimize pre-processing, feature extraction and classification algorithms. Compare your results with state-of-the-art algorithms.

soft-/hardware: MATLAB or other signal processing platform that is able to read in the MATLAB matrix
participants: 3-5 people per group
skills: signal processing skills

Registration

 

‌‌‌ Locked-in Patient Data Analysis

Analyze a vibro-tactile P300 BCI data-set from a patient with locked-in syndrom in order to optimize pre-processing, feature extraction and classification algorithms. Compare your results with state-of-the-art algorithms.

soft-/hardware: MATLAB or other signal processing platform that is able to read in the MATLAB matrix
participants: 3 groups, 3-5 people per group
skills: signal processing skills

Registration

 

‌‌‌ ECoG Hand Pose Data Analysis

Analyze an ECoG BCI data-set from an epilepsy person in order to optimize pre-processing, feature extraction and classification algorithms. Compare your results with state-of-the-art algorithms.

soft-/hardware: MATLAB or other signal processing platform that is able to read in the MATLAB matrix
participants: 3-5 people per group
skills: signal processing skills

Registration ‌‌

 

BCI ARTS PROJECTS

 

‌‌ Unicorn Painting

Create images according to your brain activity that you measure with the Unicorn Brain Interface.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black, Unicorn Speller (includes Painting add-on)
participants: 3-5 people per group

Registration ‌‌

 

‌‌ Visual Arts & BCI

Finding new ways of developing artistic projects using Unicorn BCI.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Hybrid Black
participants: 3-5 people per group

Registration ‌‌

 

Design Unicorn Naked BCI in 3D 

Expand the Unicorn Brain Interface with your own 3D printed parts. Let them move, light, hold things or simply look nice. Watch the video 3D Headset Design.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Naked BCI, 3D software
participants: 2 groups, 3-5 people per group
Skills: Basic CAD

Registration ‌‌

 

Design Unicorn Brain Interface with Sewing Machines

Give the Unicorn Brain Interface a new, fashionable look.

soft-/hardware: Unicorn Naked BCI, sewing machines, fabrics and craftiing material
participants: 2 groups, 3-5 people per group

Registration ‌‌

 

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