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Chapter 328 Time-Saving and Labor-Saving Instruments

He usually conducts research and development in a virtual laboratory. The reason is very simple: it saves time and effort to do research and development in a virtual laboratory!

So after he had a new idea, he went to the workshop break room, lay on the bed, and immersed himself in the virtual laboratory.

The virtual laboratory he created now resembled a library, surrounded by bookshelves filled with countless books. Upon closer inspection, it became clear that these books were all about brainwaves.

These books contain almost all the knowledge about brainwaves available on the market. He started collecting them a long time ago, and now he wants to thoroughly study all of this knowledge.

Only after gaining a sufficient understanding of brainwaves can we begin specialized research focusing on their characteristics.

A massive amount of reading tasks awaited him. This process was actually quite tedious, but because he was in a virtual laboratory, he was generally very focused when doing things.

Through his tireless efforts, he read through all the brainwave-related knowledge he had previously collected, which gave him a clear understanding of brainwaves.

What are brainwaves? They are a method of recording brain activity using electrophysiological indicators. When the brain is active, the postsynaptic points of a large number of neurons occur synchronously and are then synthesized.

In layman's terms, it refers to the changes in bioelectric waves generated during brain activity; it is the overall response of the electrophysiological activity of brain nerve cells on the cerebellar cortex or scalp surface.

Brainwaves have a wide range of applications, including research in education and entertainment, so brainwave technology can be considered a relatively advanced technology.

As long as the cerebellum is active, it will inevitably generate brainwaves. If we can collect all the brainwaves generated by the cerebellum and form a brainwave database, and also understand the meaning represented by those brainwaves, we can basically achieve the goal of translating brainwaves.

Of course, that kind of brainwave translation translates brainwaves into text, but rather translates what the cerebellum thinks into text. Of course, that kind of model is the foundation, and only by thoroughly studying the foundation can the previous work be carried out better.

The first step is to collect brainwave patterns and record them, then correlate them with the meanings they represent. The fewer correlations collected, the less beneficial it will be for the current work.

Building that database was a very stressful task. It was not only difficult, but also very tedious. Moreover, it was easier to work in the laboratory than in a virtual laboratory. Even if it was developed in a virtual laboratory, it still had to be done in the real world.

In that situation, it's better to do it in reality, and it will be done in one go. Of course, the equipment for collecting brainwaves should be designed in a virtual laboratory!

Fortunately, when I was researching the robotic arm later, I had collected enough neural signals, which saved me a lot of trouble in the later stages of my special research on brainwaves.

The brainwave collection device was developed by me based on the neural response system under the robotic arm, through in-depth research on regression!

The unit that connects neurons under the arm was designed as a patch, and that patch was fixed under the helmet, which looks like a 3/4 helmet, except that it has a transparent lens at the back.

I designed the instrument in the virtual laboratory, and then I went in and out of it.

Before returning to reality, I first had Liu Xiaodong contact the county hospital. Then, accompanied by Liu Xiaodong, I took a tour of the neurology department of the county hospital, mainly looking at the various medical instruments in the hospital.

Don't underestimate that hospital just because it's a county-level hospital. Its medical equipment is top-notch. The hospital is newly built, and all the equipment is new. Thanks to the cooperation and sponsorship between the Four Continents Divine Beast and the county hospital, the hospital's hardware capabilities are comparable to those of top-tier hospitals in the country.

So, regarding the equipment, the county hospital would definitely back down first. After going around in circles, I took a look at two pieces of equipment from the county hospital. After some negotiation, Li Zhenhua got his hands on the equipment.

Not to mention that I, Li Zhenhua, am wasting medical resources, the two pieces of equipment I need are covered in dust, which shows that they are practically useless on ordinary days.

Without the equipment brought back from the county hospital, and without the neuronal system that developed when I had my mechanical prosthesis, my previous work was much less stressful.

Before cleaning, I moved the brand-new medical equipment out of the workshop. Then I disassembled the equipment and reused the useless parts that I took from it according to my own design.

Then a cabinet the size of a refrigerator was created in my hands. Underneath the cabinet was a screen, along with a mouse, keyboard, input devices, and speakers.

Most importantly, there is a cable extending from outside the cabinet, and the other end of the cable is connected to a helmet.

The helmet's interior was covered with patches. Before the device was even made, I knew whether it was useful or not, so I visualized it in the virtual lab and then conducted some tests in the virtual lab.

The test results were good; the equipment I developed works! With that result in mind, the next step is to collect various brainwaves from the regressor outside of reality!

Because there is no existing database of neuronal analysis systems, the lack of a foundation made my work of collecting the various meanings represented by brain waves much more stressful.

That kind of work perfectly fits the principle that "it's hardest to get started," so without any prior preparation, my initial work progressed very smoothly.

The work involved in annotating the regression of various brainwaves, one band at a time, was extremely small. However, if I were to ask someone else for help, there would actually be someone who could lend a hand. Often, it had nothing to do with a single word, but I would have to keep thinking about that word in my mind for half an hour.

Only in that way can the brainwave frequencies I collect be accurate. In unfamiliar situations, the work does indeed deteriorate quickly, but as I get more and more used to it, I become more and more proficient at the work.

As fewer and fewer EEG signals are collected, the newly collected EEG signals are being used in previous work, so the previous work is getting slower and slower.

For two months, I devoted myself entirely to the work of collecting brainwaves. Although it took a lot of time, the results were really significant.

The current brainwave database is already quite large, and the effect is generally significant. That system can display all the thoughts in a person's mind in text.

That level already has a very small commercial market, but it's still far from the final effect I envisioned. My envisioned effect was to directly convert brainwaves into images, but now it's text.

Of course, the step of translating into text is a prerequisite for converting into images, and also a prerequisite for converting into speech.

In other words, the work is now halfway done. The most difficult part is actually the process of collecting brainwaves. The earlier conversion work is the culmination of that work.

The conversion work is all done through programming and decoding algorithms, just like a TV station broadcasting a wireless television signal, which is then converted into images and sounds that people can see and hear through ordinary algorithms before being received by the television.

It sounds complicated, but when you actually do it, it's not that difficult to succeed!

After collecting all the EEG information data from the database, I finished my work in the real world and returned to the virtual laboratory. The subsequent programming and decoding algorithm development still progressed much more slowly in the virtual laboratory.

Moreover, especially now that the brainwave database has been collected and can be converted into text, this means that as long as I finish writing those programs in the laboratory, I can use the current brainwave translator to write the programs and other things at the slowest speed when I return to reality.

That would save time and effort, and it freed me from the repetitive and tedious work of programming, which used to give me a headache.

Although the brainwave translation technology that has been developed so far is not brain-computer interface technology, and the technology may not yet reach that level, it is still very time-saving and labor-saving.

Based on my comprehensive calculations, that technology can save me ten times the time, and it only requires me to use my hands, not my brain. The previous methods all involved fixing people behind computers, but now I can just wear a transmission helmet and complete the task while lying down.

However, there are still some difficulties in using it. It's easy to get distracted. You need to concentrate fully to avoid making mistakes. If you get distracted, the consequences can be dire. If you're just imagining something, the machine might just translate it directly.

For the past few weeks, I've been working on a program that allows a translation machine to directly generate images and speech. Finally, a week ago, I finished working on all the brainwave data. However, after some actual testing, I found that it was malfunctioning in various aspects.

The margin for error is very low. Although some inaccuracies have been avoided, it is sufficient for now.

When that thing was developed, I moved it to my R&D workshop and connected it to the main control room in the workshop, making the program run more slowly.

Now that all the tools are ready, the blueprints for the space fighter will be much easier to produce. We can take off the helmet and use the brainwave translator to directly generate the blueprints.

The fighter jet blueprints were transferred from my brain to the computer one by one using a brainwave translator, eventually forming electronic blueprints and electronic files.

The development of that brainwave translator took me a total of seven months. During that time, the fighter jet materials that I requested from Wang Yuesheng also arrived one after another.

But was it a waste of those seven months? And was it worth it to develop the brainwave translator? Because even if I had gone to manufacture that machine, I probably would have spent that time drawing blueprints.

The speed difference between drawing blueprints manually and translating them using a machine is quite significant.

All the blueprints for the fighter jet were prepared. Even the operating programs that the machining center could recognize were written by me using a brainwave translator. The development of that thing saved me a lot of time.

With the blueprints and materials in place, I officially completed the production of the Super Raptor Mod.

The first thing to do is still the solar energy core. Like the energy core that follows, all the parts have been modified and regressed.

Even the fuel tank that holds Helium-8 has been changed, because I designed the fuel tank to be very small, so that even if it only holds one pound of Helium-8, there will be no problem.

The raw materials used for each component in the energy core are all the same. These identical materials are sent to the processing center, which then operates on its own, while I watch from the side.

When I was manufacturing that Super Raptor, I never even considered hand-polishing it again before it came off the machining center. I planned for it to look exactly the way it came off the machine.

Because the fighter jet I developed was not intended for mass production, but was merely a laboratory product, in order to produce it on a small scale in the future, we must start thinking about parts manufacturing and the assembly of the fighter jet from now on.

If we don't consider this now, we'll be scrambling to catch up when it comes to small-scale production.

Everything must be considered from a long-term perspective, otherwise problems are bound to arise.

The machining precision I chose for the fighter jet was the same precision that the giant machining center I later developed could achieve; that precision was sufficient for that fighter jet.

There aren't many parts that require that level of precision. The precision of a small number of parts in fighter jets is controlled by me at the level of a next-level machining center.

There is also the issue of whether a precision barrier has been formed. At present, the four-state processing industry has not yet completed the precision upgrade. Of course, it is not easy, but as long as the next-level processing center is popularized in the early stage, such small-scale production will be a problem.

In my opinion, by the time that fighter jet is put into small-scale production, the precision of the machining process in Shishu will probably have already undergone a generational leap.

The timing might be just right, perfect for getting off at the last minute.

It can be said that the level of processing precision was achieved after comprehensively considering the current situation in the four states.

All the parts of the energy core came from the machining center and were directly assembled by me without any precision grinding. Although the precision was not as low as that of my manual machining, all the parts were within the usable range.

In the blink of an eye, I have manufactured ten sets of the solar core fusion energy core.

The machining center I built is also very powerful. None of the parts in it had any problems. Even though there are thousands of parts in each energy core, not a single one of them had a problem.

The probability of that happening was extremely high, yet it actually did occur.

The ten solar energy cores require a total of 500 grams of helium-8, and the necessary helium-8 fuel has already been delivered by the refining laboratory.

Of all the countries on Earth, the one with the fewest Helium-8 is the four states. In our four states, we use kilograms as the unit of measurement for Helium-8, while other countries are still using grams, milligrams, or even micrograms.

Each 50 grams of Helium-8 was loaded into the solar star's fuel tank, and all ten fuel tanks were filled. At this point, all the preparatory work for the solar star's energy core was completed.

Looking at the energy cores lined up behind me in the workshop, a gloomy smile appeared on my face.

Before laughing, he took out his phone from his pocket and dialed a number with a big smile.

(End of this chapter)