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Control Anything with Gestures: Myo Bluetooth Protocol Released

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

Legendary Teeth writes:

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.

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

  by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Wednesday April 01 2015, @06:34AM (#165293) Journal

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

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

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

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  • Re:mfw (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?

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