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posted by martyb on Wednesday April 01 2015, @06:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the waving-is-a-gesture dept.

The makers of the Myo Gesture Control Armband (Thalmic Labs) have just released the specs for the Bluetooth protocol it uses. While there are already official SDKs for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, this means that now anyone can roll their own support for other platforms like Linux or Arduino without needing to use an official platform as a bridge. Anything you can write code for that that can act as a Bluetooth GATT client would now be possible, really. If you aren't familiar with the Myo armband, it's a Bluetooth Low Energy device with 8 EMG pods and an IMU that you wear on your arm. It can read your muscle activity to detect gestures you make with you hands, which you can then use to do things like fly drones, play games, or control music.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday April 01 2015, @06:34AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday April 01 2015, @06:34AM (#165293) Journal

              .

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    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 01 2015, @07:18AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday April 01 2015, @07:18AM (#165294) Journal

      .

      That is one very nice tacyon, takyon! As for the summary, are we _sure_ we have used _all_ the ascii font characteristic markups? Hmmm???

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2015, @07:21AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2015, @07:21AM (#165295)

        It must be the oversupply of new editors, pairs edits?

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by TheB on Wednesday April 01 2015, @07:31AM

    by TheB (1538) on Wednesday April 01 2015, @07:31AM (#165299)

    It's that time of the year again...

    I hoped Soylent would be above this, but obviously not.

    Time to go back to Slashdot.

    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 01 2015, @07:51AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday April 01 2015, @07:51AM (#165303) Journal

      Time to go back to Slashdot.

      Yessiree! Soylent News is green! Too immature. Besides, I hear Ponies calling you!

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by PinkyGigglebrain on Wednesday April 01 2015, @07:54AM

      by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Wednesday April 01 2015, @07:54AM (#165304)

      Yep.

      How many bugs fixed, feature adds and other improvements to the site could have been done in the hours wasted coding/testing/debugging all this green on black crap?

      I'll be back on the 2nd, maybe.

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      • (Score: 3, Interesting) by aristarchus on Wednesday April 01 2015, @08:21AM

        by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday April 01 2015, @08:21AM (#165305) Journal

        the hours wasted coding/testing/debugging all this green on black crap?

        Remember, Gigglebrain, ::reading comprehension! Maybe you just missed it. Previously available skin for the site. I doubt any hours were wasted. And still better than some other sites that still cannot even use unicode!

        • (Score: 2) by TLA on Wednesday April 01 2015, @08:33AM

          by TLA (5128) on Wednesday April 01 2015, @08:33AM (#165309) Journal

          in lieu of there not being a "++High Five!" mod: High Five!

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      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Wednesday April 01 2015, @09:28AM

        by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday April 01 2015, @09:28AM (#165323) Homepage
        About one second was required for this change - they've just rotated the style preferences. What you're reading is the style I normally view with, which I find much easier on my eyes, and alas I am having to read SN with the default stylesheet. Maybe they just moved an entry from one end of the array of filenames to the end of the array - that's about a one-second change. Maybe they replaced $i with ($i+1)%5 - that's less than a one-second change.

        Don't comment on things about which you have no comprehension.
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      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday April 01 2015, @10:32AM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday April 01 2015, @10:32AM (#165337) Homepage Journal

        About thirty minutes or so to design the theme, though it has been live and had people using it since an update or two back. Themes are really little more than one edited css file, a logo, and a favicon. Anyone with the web developer extension for firefox basic css knowledge (which is all that I have really) could whip out a theme in under an hour. Speaking of, feel free to submit your own, folks.

        Moments only to foist it upon an unsuspecting populace.

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      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by soylentsandor on Wednesday April 01 2015, @10:33AM

        by soylentsandor (309) on Wednesday April 01 2015, @10:33AM (#165338)

        Apart from the fact that as FatPhil already pointed out, this trick probably took about two seconds to materialize (as it were) - who the hell are you to determine someone else shouldn't spend their spare time on anything? They have no obligation whatsoever to you, you know.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2015, @11:18AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2015, @11:18AM (#165339)

        TheMightyBuzzard made these themes a months ago. Took us maybe 10 minutes to change a setting to implement the trick.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2015, @11:51AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2015, @11:51AM (#165349)

          This setting is awsome, leave it as is.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2015, @09:47AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2015, @09:47AM (#165327)

      Why so serious?

    • (Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Wednesday April 01 2015, @01:09PM

      by Rivenaleem (3400) on Wednesday April 01 2015, @01:09PM (#165370)
    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday April 01 2015, @02:04PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 01 2015, @02:04PM (#165388) Journal
      I wonder where's the +Observant mod when you need it?
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    • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday April 01 2015, @06:02PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday April 01 2015, @06:02PM (#165496) Journal

      Time to go back to Slashdot.

      Cause "Mutinous Humans Murder Peaceful Space-going AI [slashdot.org]" is so much better!

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by LegendaryTeeth on Wednesday April 01 2015, @02:17PM

    by LegendaryTeeth (2431) on Wednesday April 01 2015, @02:17PM (#165392)

    Here is the original, unformatted summary if you would like to be able to actually read it:

    The makers of the Myo Gesture Control Armband (Thalmic Labs) have just released the specs for the Bluetooth protocol it uses. While there are already official SDKs for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, this means that now anyone can roll their own support for other platforms like Linux or Arduino without needing to use one of the official platforms as a bridge. Anything you can write code for that that can act as a Bluetooth GATT client would now be possible, really.

    If you aren't familiar with the Myo armband, it's a Bluetooth Low Energy device with 8 EMG pods and an IMU that you wear on your arm. It can read your muscle activity to detect gestures you make with you hands, which you can then use to do things like fly drones, play games, or control music.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by i(*+*)i on Wednesday April 01 2015, @06:09PM

      by i(*+*)i (4336) on Wednesday April 01 2015, @06:09PM (#165499)

      Noooooooooooooo!!!

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by ginge on Wednesday April 01 2015, @06:28PM

    by ginge (1964) on Wednesday April 01 2015, @06:28PM (#165514)

    The goggles, they do nothing!