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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, 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.

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  • (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!!!