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Legendary Teeth writes:

The makers of the Myo Gesture Control Armband [thalmic.com] (Thalmic Labs) have just released the specs for the Bluetooth protocol it uses [myo.com]. While there are already official SDKs for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android [thalmic.com], 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 [instructables.com]. Anything you can write code for that that can act as a Bluetooth GATT [bluetooth.org] 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 [wikipedia.org] pods and an IMU [wikipedia.org] 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 [youtube.com], play games [youtube.com], or control music [google.com].

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