I'm glad to see someone actually do this. I wanted to try something similar about a year ago, and then the student who was excited about the idea transferred to another school and I kind of dropped the ball after that.
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Originally Posted by mechanicalbrain
Well it trully is a cool idea. I’m curious about what you use to pick up the nerve signals?
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While I'm not sure what was used here, there was an article in Nuts & Volts about a year and a half ago (not sure which month) that had a circuit design for a biofeedback machine. It took the muscle signal and sent it as an analog signal to a speaker, but I think it could be easily modified to send to the OI.
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Originally Posted by sparksandtabs
the first thing I thought about when i saw this thread and read the article in the link someone had posted, was that it is a way to make people even lazier. We can now have a segway that can be driven with out minds. Although being lazy isn't a band thing.  |
While I guess it could serve to make people lazier, the student I started working with (again, before he transferred) had brainstormed several possible uses that included things like control for a motorized wheel chair and replacing the mouse on the computer. Our focus wasn't nearly complex as detailed here, mainly the equivalent of a single axis joystick, so at the time we didn't think it would be practical for FIRST. It would be interesting to see the idea pursued.