Make a Mind-Controlled Arduino Robot
Use Your Brain as a Remote
Published on 15. December 2011
98 pages
978-1-4493-2601-2 (ISBN)
Description
Build a robot that responds to electrical activity in your brain?it's easy and fun. If you're familiar with Arduino and have basic mechanical building skills, this book will show you how to construct a robot that plays sounds, blinks lights, and reacts to signals from an affordable electroencephalography (EEG) headband. Concentrate and the robot will move. Focus more and it will go faster. Let your mind wander and the robot will slow down.
You'll find complete instructions for building a simple robot chassis with servos, wheels, sensors, LEDs, and a speaker. You also get the code to program the Arduino microcontroller to receive wireless signals from the EEG. Your robot will astound anyone who wears the EEG headband.
This book will help you:
- Connect an inexpensive EEG device to Arduino
- Build a robot platform on wheels
- Calculate a percentage value from a potentiometer reading
- Mix colors with an RGB LED
- Play tones with a piezo speaker
- Write a program that makes the robot avoid boundaries
- Create simple movement routines
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- From Helsinki to San Francisco
- Reactions
- EEG in Your Living Room
- NeuroSky MindWave
- What Do You Need to Know?
- Acknowledgments
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Using Code Examples
- Safari® Books Online
- How to Contact Us
- Chapter 1. Building the Chassis
- Tools and Parts
- Parts
- Tools
- Servo Motors
- Attaching Servos
- Chassis
- Making Holes
- Painting the Chassis
- Attaching Servos to the Chassis
- Attaching the Line-Detecting Sensor
- Wheels
- Attaching the RGB LED to Chassis
- Attaching the Power Switch to the Chassis
- Attaching Arduino
- Battery Holder
- Attaching Solderless Breadboard
- ScrewShield Holds Wires in Place
- Chapter 2. Coding
- Moving
- Connect Servos
- Hello Servo
- Calibrate Stopping Point
- Full Speed Forward
- Other Ways to Control Servos
- Line Avoidance
- Connect the Reflection Sensor
- Hello Reflection
- Don't Cross the Black Line
- Battery, No Strings Attached
- Choosing Rechargeable Batteries
- Connecting the Battery and Power Key
- Bells and Whistles
- Red, Green, and Blue LED
- Soldering RGB LED
- Hello RGB
- Beeping Piezo
- Setting Threshold with a Potentiometer
- Everything But Your Mind
- Code Structure
- Measuring Your Brains with MindWave
- Hack MindWave Dongle
- Level Conversion with Resistors
- Voltage Divider
- Hello Attention!
- NeuroSky Protocol
- Complete Mind-Controlled Robot
- Appendix. Building the ScrewShield
