[Cyborg] Cyborg/fyborg tails!
Eric Boyd
mrericboyd at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 16 21:29:33 UTC 2010
Wow, that's super awesome! I'd love to play with these sensors! I
found your mind controlled wheel chair video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyQv61899HE
Unfortunately the company seems to want $2k for the development kit.
Can you swing us a deal somehow? Or do you still have rights to the
underlying tech that you could open source?
Eric
On 11/16/10 12:41 AM, Thomas Coleman wrote:
> Heya all,
>
> I'm the Thomas Coleman mentioned below, sorry for the delay responding.
> The sensors mentioned by Mikolaj are derived from the core technology
> behind the Audeo (http://www.theaudeo.com). They input three signals
> from the surface of the skin (and power/ground), and output a unipolar
> digital signal corresponding to the level of muscle activity. Bigger
> muscle activity, bigger byte value. The cool thing is I originally
> designed them to detect the extremely low level signals of people no
> longer able to produce detectable activity, like locked in ALS patients.
> This means they can pick up signals so weak nobody can tell you're even
> doing anything to trigger them. It takes some self-training to reliably
> control your signals like that, but once you get it you can do all kinds
> of cool/spooky things (somewhere out there is a youtube vid of me evilly
> cruising in a wheelchair among other things hehe). Anyways, long story
> short the sensors he was talking about are more hacker-friendly than
> furry-specific. They're reliable, sensitive, RF immune, tiny, and can
> even use steel as skin contacts. Sorry I'm kinda proud of my babies :)
>
> ~T
>
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Mikolaj Habryn <dichro at rcpt.to
> <mailto:dichro at rcpt.to>> wrote:
>
>
> Sorry for vanishing after that tantalizing message :P I'm mid-travel
> (and
> mostly mid-travail, as well).
>
> I didn't design the sensors; they're being done by one Thomas
> Coleman, who
> also does EMG stuff professionally. The current prototype is a
> single sensor
> (three-lead) differential amplifier plus microcontroller in a small,
> sealed
> 8-pin module that outputs serial. I've pointed him at this thread, so
> hopefully he'll have a chance to weigh in with more detail.
>
> m.
>
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Tomm <tomm.fire at gmail.com
> <mailto:tomm.fire at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > Nov. 7th works for me. I have some new hardware
> > to show off from my ultrasound project, might even
> > be able to show it all working (!).
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > On 10/24/10 11:30 PM, ch_luk at berkeley.edu
> <mailto:ch_luk at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > > Hi Sarah,
> > >
> > > Your work is really neat! Would you be willing to show us
> some of it
> > at
> > > a future cyborg meeting, perhaps next month? We hold monthly-ish
> > > meetings Sunday afternoons starting at 4 pm in the Noisebridge
> space
> > > (2169 Mission St). Might Nov. 7 or 21 work for you?
> > >
> > > To the local Bay Area cyborgs, who's free Nov. 7 or Nov. 21?
> (I'm at a
> > > conference Nov. 14.) It'd be great to have everyone
> show-and-tell their
> > > current work. Automated zebrafish heartbeat sensing, Todd? Eric
> and I
> > > should have a complete pulse choker prototype for you to try on
> by then.
> > > =)
> > >
> > > To the remote cyborgs, book your plane tickets and visit! ;)
> Also,
> > what
> > > makes the EMG sensor you speak of specific for furry-tech, Mikolaj?
> > >
> > > Sarah, does wanting to add electronic eyelashes or wings
> count in the
> > > adding-limbs-that-humans-don't-normally-have genre?
> > >
> > > Smiles,
> > > Chung-Hay
> > >
> > >
> > >> I have some EMG stuff queued up to work on too. I met a
> gentleman at
> > PS:1
> > >> a
> > >> few months ago and we got each other enthusiastic enough that
> he has
> > >> prototyped up some EMG sensors specifically for furry-tech
> applications
> > (I
> > >> was going to start with articulated pointy ears, but tails were
> > definitely
> > >> on the wistfully desired list :). I'll be funding an initial
> run of
> > >> sensors
> > >> (probably no more than a dozen or so) when I get back to NYC;
> would be
> > >> happy
> > >> to send some to Noisebridge for experimentation if they'd be of
> > interest.
> > >>
> > >> m.
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Sarah Nordstrom
> > >> <sarahemm at sarahemm.net <mailto:sarahemm at sarahemm.net>>wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I was talking to Rachel (apologies if I've misspelled your
> name) at
> > >>> Noisebridge a couple days back, and we got talking about
> tails. I
> > >>> started
> > >>> working on a tail with gyros and accelerometers in it a
> couple years
> > >>> back,
> > >>> to assist with balance (my inner ears don't work properly),
> and have
> > >>> been
> > >>> inspired to start working on that again! :) I said I'd post
> the links I
> > >>> was talking about, so here they are:
> > >>> The howto pages I talked about are at
> > >>> http://www.wolftronix.com/howto.htm
> > >>> and the bionic tail (using EMG data to control a tail)
> project is at
> > >>> http://www.wolftronix.com/biotail/biotail.htm.
> > >>>
> > >>> Anyone else interested in tails or other types of
> > >>> adding-limbs-that-humans-don't-normally-have? (or even limbs
> humans
> > *do*
> > >>> normally have?)
> > >>>
> > >>> - Sarah
> > >>>
> > >>>
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