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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: 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.

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