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Look mum, no hands! — Brain controlled JavaScript – Charlie Gerard – JSConf EU 2018



A typical interaction with a device or interface involves touching it. Either you’re pressing buttons on a controller, swiping on a touchscreen or clicking on your laptop’s trackpad. But what if you could control things without the use of your hands? What if you could use… your thoughts?

I have been tinkering with a brain sensor and developed an open source JavaScript framework for it to allow me (or anyone else) to control interfaces or robots using facial expressions and mental commands.

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41 responses to “Look mum, no hands! — Brain controlled JavaScript – Charlie Gerard – JSConf EU 2018”

  17. maybe a idea that you can develop.
    use such scanner on a daily base, that it reads all your motions of your arms.
    repeat the same thing every day (as close as possible)

    then have a electronic hand/robot arm, link it to the script and try moving it with your mind.

    if it works you have a robot arm that could be used for people who do not have a arm/hands

  26. Congrats & kudos for the nice talk !
    Especially for the "useless ain't worthless" quote -> indeed more than true ( even more combined with our friend serendipity to end up with too many open tabs & windows .. 😉 )

    On the "chip implant side", you HAVE to check "memory transfer between snails" through RNA injection ( aside from electrocuting some of them, the subject of study is awesome & could lead to better understandings of how memory is "encoded" & "stored" by nature* ( for simple organisms ), and I'm pretty sure it'll be interesting for you to digg ( & then go on building artistic hack on that 🙂 )

    *not by some researchers having fun makin "nanoscale gifs" 😉

    For any reader interested, you DO have to train the facial expressions as well for some individuals ( as I ): it seems on this subject too, "we all have nearly the same wires but they're not wired the same way"

    Last but not least, as said on Github/by mail the last time we talked, I plan to update the epocutils lib that handles "raw" data & init a pull request once done so, maybe with a little nodejs wrapper up-to-date on the nan & cie stuff 🙂

    > also, thanks for the mention on Github: it's always nice to be credited ;p

    Keep up the good work ++

  28. This is so exciting. I don't care if the demo does not work sometimes because as a developer myself I know things just does not work when you try to show it to someone. What matters is the idea and progress she has made so far.

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