Electromyography Experiments

Using the now defunct Myo EMG based arm band, I hacked together some code to control a simple Lego claw. It was a fun little divergence into the limitations of EMG input as it stands today. It’s was evident early on that the latency to detect and process the signal was going to be the limiting factor to realtime control.

A secondary part of the hack here was getting golang applications running on the LEGO mind storm bricks. The app running on the brick received commands from my MAC which was performing the signal analysis from the data stream of the Myo band. I’ve since used the Lego hack for other unrelated hacks.