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A project log for uEMG - small 4-channel EMG wearable device

A 4-channel EMG wearable (with a bracelet!) to control stuff with it.

olya-gryOlya Gry 12/25/2019 at 22:070 Comments

After visiting Maker Faire Rome in October, things were, to put it mildly, not perfect. But today is a good day to tell the tiny amount of news we have.

Before going to Maker Faire, I wanted Dmitry to come up with a way to show how uEMG works. At the Maker Faire Prague this summer, I really liked the "singing bananas", so I suggested converting muscle activity into sound! It was so original that I was delighted with myself and my idea. Actually, I also wanted some kind of LED strip flashing in parallel! But Dmitry cooled my ardor. God be his judge.

So, we arrived in Rome, prepared our stand at the exhibition. And there Dmitry in the evenings, instead of walking around the city and looking at the Coliseum, wrote a code for the “voice acting” of uEMG. He even found the right music. But ... it seems uEMG was never destined to "sing". Instead of music, Dmitry suddenly decided to go visual! The truth is, sound was just too complicated to implement in a couple of days. So signal of each channel was processed with FFT and relevant part of the spectrum converted into activity level, which in turn was shown as size and color of corresponding box. You can see how it turned out on the video that we shot right at the exhibition.

So it goes. We are still very busy with our uECG project and have no time left for uEMG. But maybe on this day we can make a wish for the new year to bring us more time and energy for our new projects! Happy holiday to you!

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