Controlling a robot with the Emotiv EEG headset

Robotics

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May 5th, 2010

Robert Oschler (Boise, Idaho), of RobotsRule and the creator of Robodance, the robot control software, is about to release version 5.0 of his software. In this sneak peek video, he shows us how he uses the Emotiv EPOC headset to control a WowWee Rovio.

Here’s a link to the article that explains how he used the Emotiv SDK to create the link between the EPOC headset and Robodance.

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