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Brain-controlled synthesis through a prosthetic arm


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That reminds me of the story of my grade eight band teacher, Hank Demarco. Hank, a saxophonist, lost part of his left arm to cancer, but a rehab team was able to create a means for him to return to his instrument. (Hank was Mac Demarco's grandfather.)

 

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This is mind boggling - maybe literally. I love stuff like this and realize how much we take for granted. I never really think about how our brain tells our muscles to do something.

 

In this case there's no physical knob to tell whether you need to increase or decrease the CV. So can the brain adapt to producing the electrical signal based on sound or is he still thinking about hand to knob movement? And what's the resolution and accuracy? Can you jump to any value rather than be confined to the limitations of a physical knob? How many signals can you generate at one time? What's the latency?

 

Yeah this is extremely cool!

 

 

 

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