Electronic – arduino – How to read serial data from the Neurosky chips

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I recently bought a Star Wars Force Trainer II with the intention of using it to read the attention and meditation values.

I looked at the Arduino Brain library but that didn't work.

I started reading the serial data at a 9600 baud rate and got this data (https://pastebin.com/2SH1yarQ). Can anyone help me figure out how to use this data to find the attention and meditation values or how to get the Arduino Brain library to start working?

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http://developer.neurosky.com/docs/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=mindset_communications_protocol.pdf

This is fully documented, the 2 0xAA bytes (170) are the sync bytes at the start of a message, the next byte is the payload length, and finally you have the CRC.

The linked pdf even has example code for parsing the data,

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