Controlling a robot with your mind

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For [Ern]'s MEng group project, his group had to develop a robotics platform capable of achieving some end goal. Because innovation is a large part of the grade, [Ern] convinced his team members to work with a brain controlled interface and build a mind controlled robotics platform. For wont of having an easy build, [Ern] and his team chose a Lynxmotion Tri-Track robot capable of moving around … [Read more...]

Control a playlist with your mind

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Because switching apps to change a song is such a taxing ordeal, [Oscar Celma] and [Ching-Wei Chen] decided to use their collective brainpower to change Last.FM playlists with their minds. They call their project Buddhafy, and it works by taking off-the-shelf EEG hardware and tying it into music streaming APIs. For the build, the guys used a NeuroSky MindWave to read alpha waves inside … [Read more...]

Nerf mind bullets

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[Chris] thinks that using your brain to control your trigger finger is a passé way of operating a toy firearm. Instead, he's using his mind to fire foam bullets at whatever he thinks needs to pretend-die. To read his will, he's chosen the Neurosky MindWave, a device that we just looked at for servo control. That hack shows how to patch into the USB dongle that comes with the device, but [Chris] … [Read more...]

MindWave is developer (read: hacker) friendly mind control

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Here's a setup to control a servo motor with your mind. [Danny Bertner] made this project happen by interfacing a MindWave headset with an Arduino. You might wonder what's the big deal about that since we've covered quite a few mind control hacks that work this way? So far, the majority of those hacks used the Mindflex toy (to be fair there were several using the Force Trainer as well), which … [Read more...]