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Control Anything with Gestures: Myo Bluetooth Protocol Released

posted by martyb on Wednesday April 01 2015, @06:28AM   Printer-friendly
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.

 
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  • (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-soylent} {at} {asdf.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.

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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.