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Open-Source Gear For Making Mind-Controlled Gadgets

Posted by samzenpus on from the free-your-mind dept.

the_newsbeagle writes If you've been hankering to control a robotic battle spider with your mind but haven't known how to begin, you're in luck. A startup called OpenBCI is now selling an Arduino-compatible board that any reasonably competent DIYer can use to build a brain-computer interface. The board takes in data from up to 8 EEG scalp electrodes, and hackers are already using it to pull of some good tricks. There's the guy with the battle spiders, and there's a group in L.A. building a paint-by-brain system for a paralyzed graffiti artist.

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  1. Wrong system by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "There's the guy with the battle spiders, and there's a group in L.A. building a paint-by-brain system for a paralyzed graffiti artist."

    We'd prefer a system that's able to paralyze graffiti 'artists'.

  2. LOL ... by gstoddart · · Score: 2

    I for one welcome our new mind-controlled battle-spider overlords.

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  3. Re:Where's the video of robot spider mind control? by gstoddart · · Score: 2

    If you had a mind controlled robot spider, would you be wasting your time uploading a video?

    Only if it began with "Attention people of Earth" ...

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