My brother attempting to build a “mind controlled” wheel chair for his high school science fair.

May 29, 2021 1:26 PM

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Lmfao

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Get this dude to MIT

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The force is strong with this one

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My science fair project was to see which paper towel was most absorptive, so yeah. That’s pretty much the same level.

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I’m working on a gas powered wheel chair but I don’t think I have enough beans to complete my research v

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Every kid who walks In to that science fair holding a volcano.

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It's a mini, more serious Michael Reeves

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Fun fact, some one did a similar thing, but for a car. It’s not impossible https://youtu.be/mPbtR4vorgY

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Was looking for this comment

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He's very talented

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Well, my baking soda and vinegar volcano looks like crap now...

5 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

Oh sure, He builds a mind-controlled chair and it's cool. I build a mind control chair and it's "unethical" and "a violation of free will"

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

That guy going places with that mind

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Fucking go for it young man. Support your bro, he could change everything

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's more advanced than my bachelor in engineering. And my robot didn't work at all

5 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

So now how would that work? Your brain sends a message like “forward” to the computer and the computer drives a motor?

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ppl like that, change the world. But only if they have good support systems. Be cool to ur brother.Get involved. Be endless love2 eachother.

5 years ago | Likes 159 Dislikes 2

*agrees in mariah carey and luther vandross*

5 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Well put.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And get him money. Lots of money, to buy all the cool tech so he can build stuff.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

He might be able to save some time with an EMOTIV EEG headset dev kit. Pretty solid build, and should be able to be rigged >>

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

To a ras pi, which should be able to handle directing the motor. I'm no mech engineer, just studied EEGs a lot in uni.

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Is his name Xavier?

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On another note. What I was doing in high school was smoking weed in a back alley and getting drunk every weekend. Shit sure has changed

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I'd give you a ribbon if it was my Science Fair. Maybe two if you share.

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

I would guarantee there are losers in his school too, probably worse than you, they don’t even to go into alleys with new weed tech

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That still happens now, and this sort of thing happened when you were in school(Just with different, older tech)

5 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Yeah, sure. You just didn't want to hang out with nerds, because all they do is, like, school stuff.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

There is NOTHING comparable to walking the crowded halls between classes while tripping balls on acid. Then going to a silent classroom.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Was my first trip on mushrooms for me. Had gym and then social studies taught by the dance teacher. Was an interesting time

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Omg I did this in school- most memorable was the day Home EC played a architecture slideshow featuring different types of columns mind blown

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I'm sure there were smart kids at your school too. Still pot smokers with no ambition today as well

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

This is what happens when society values and accepts those that would be called nerds.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Me too man

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

we would go out to the baseball dugout it was out of the rain and faced away from the school

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hello, old friend. I thought that was you. How are you?

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well hello! Haha truth, sober over 3 years :)

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It hasn't changed, you just weren't around these kinds of kids, lol

5 years ago | Likes 82 Dislikes 1

Good times right ?! Remember the hash we used to get ?

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I still remember "lambs breath" weed. Been over 15 years and I have yet to experience that taste or high. I think it was laced with somethin

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

5 of us got ripped on 1 joint in a car at school. Yea there was something else in that weed.

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Would be cool to see a video of the presentation at the science fair. I wanna see the explanation on how it works.

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Most of these sensors in the past actually measured muscle activity and not EEG signals. Not sure which he’s using or what frequencies.

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It used neural networks to create an artificial inteligence that can use the signals caught by the sensors and translate then to the machine

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Its actually a very known procedure but it has some flaws as the AI takes a long period to train and will only work with his brain

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Actual EEG isn’t just subject dependent but day/week dependent. Train on some signals and the training will get worse over time.

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Because of the fact that every brain gives different waves and there's a lot of noises on this signals. But very nice project for that age.

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Bad Ass!!

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Check the 3 wire connected from ESC to the motor, seem like one of the wired is not connected properly that's why it is jittering like that.

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Also, might be nice to try turn the motor with switch/controller make sure the system working fine.

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

You were right!

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I am working on a leg controlled wheelchair.

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Where are you getting the legs?

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I don’t think it’ll get very far

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You should make one with 2 wheels, you could call it a twocycle.

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A bike?

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"Tired of using your arms to propel your wheel chair? Well, try Legs! The hot new trend in mobile propulsion."

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"(Human legs not included)"

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People would invest in it I'm sure. Not very smart people, but people.

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Didn’t expect seeing Sips posted in a random comment!

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Ambitious but really cool

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I agree. It would be nice if he would write summary of pros and cons of using that interface. Something like what did he learn during this.

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Ambitious AND really cool.

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Have a mind-controlled car: https://youtu.be/mPbtR4vorgY

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I feel like this is one of those things where even if all he achieves is proof of concepts it's still cool

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You're right, being able to travel on land and water WOULD be cool!

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Do a notch filter for alpha waves and you can control it with alertness, basically just freakout to make it go

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*wheelie cool

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Amphibious "and" really cool. But why does it need to go in water too?

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Id say overly ambitious. That wheel twitch is ambient readings from almost any part of the "mind control" device

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Great project, maybe not for a deadline type thing like a science fair

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It doesn't need to succeed to be good science. If he can present what was learned, and where to direct further research.

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I know. I was thinking more along the lines of, heres a working prototype lets go change ppls lives, benefit. Yes he can turn in w/e

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Micheal Reeves attempted to do the same thing, probably with the same toy, but with a car.

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You'd be surprised. There's a clear direct relationship between the amplitude of certain frequencies of brain signals and alertness

5 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

As long as you have a device that can measure them like the star wars force trainer toy, and you know enough electronics to isolate the 2/

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Frequencies and drive the motors then you're pretty much good to go.

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Yes! This is the principal behind, I believe the early BrainGate tech

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Step 1: don’t use mac for this kind of work.

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?

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But no joke. Using those kind of interfaces is if fucking hard. They have been around for some time but they are hard to use. Has he…

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Considered that?

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Right now, he doesn’t have his own computer, he’s just using is my dad’s old 2012 MacBook. He’ll get something good once he goes to college!

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If the interface works he should be fine with old computer. My concern was the mind control interfaces. They are really har to use.

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Don't use a Mac for any kind of work

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I would have to disagree with that.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

It might be an hp Elitebook

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Look again!

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One singular reason being if it becomes an actual product it will be over inflated in price solely because its built on mac hardware..

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That’s a good point but you don’t have to look for drivers when doing clean reinstall of the system. You pay for that service too.

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IT Support here (shoot me) some brilliant developers I've known prefer mac. The interface is not so bad and you can easily develop on iOS.

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

I know. developer too. Problems come to surface when you want to use hardware and you realize it’s not (fully) supported on macOs or linux.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I used to work on linux desktop for years and I am done with it. For servers there is absolutely nothing better than linux/unix.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Tons of *developers* do, osx is a Unix. But if you're going to need to interface with weird devices, you probably want windows or Linux.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

It use to be Unix but nowadays it’s not even close to it.

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Hi professional weird device interfacer here. If it's too weird it'll usually only have windows support. So dual boot is friend

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No. It’s not. That’s just more hassle and more work trying to forcefully use something that doesn’t completely support what you need.

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Degree in interactive media design, a lot of people use Macs, that said it's very limiting with programs/plugins.

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Hardware support is also an issue. It’s not only mac. Linux desktops are even worse in every way.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yeah we had a lot of people struggling with arduinos, luckily the department keeps a bunch of old dell xps laptops hanging around.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I don't like the whole mac vs pc thing, its kinda cringy. But it's worth knowing the issues on certain computers just in case.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They are all great platforms either hardware-wise or software-wise for specific task but an all around desktop it’s still pc with windows os

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Its unix based and hardware isnt bad. I would just slap linux on it.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If you want to create more work for your self, on daily basis, then go ahead and do it.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Less work. I migrated just over a year ago. Linux mint feels just like windows with no annoying updates that break your PC. 1/x

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Not to mention for a researcher like myself it comes with things like python and a latex pre installed. 2/x

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If it's not installed there is even an app store "software manager" so you dont have to use terminal.

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