Pressing buttons with your hands is a drag. With OpenBCI,you can use your mind to control smartphones, robots, and even your friends’ limbs.

Background: Brain-computer interfaces have been around for decades. But, thanks to recent advances in machine learning, they’ve become a hugely popular field of research-for-future-profit.

01-22-2014 DESIGN A DIY Platform For Building Devices You Control With Your Mind Who needs a neuroscience degree? OpenBCI is the first open-source prototyping platform for brain-computer interfaces.

Program it using C, Java, Python, and other languages, utilize it as a portable wireless router, and even control other wireless devices such as speakers and cameras.

Over at DIY web site Instructables, user indestructable thoroughly describes the process of connecting an electrical device to your computer and controlling it with some simple programming.

Cheap consumer drones are really just little computers on wings. It makes sense, then, that all it takes to disable one is another cheap computer, a wi-fi connection, and some technical know-how.

The iPhone maker is working with startup Synchron on new brain-computer interfaces to assist people with disabilities.

These new systems are built around plug-and-play, DIY-friendly devices and sensors that work with your smartphone, move when you need them to, and put you in control of how you protect your home ...

Kano has announced the latest iteration of its DIY computer that’s designed to help kids learn how to code. The London-based company already offers a range of devices that anyone over the age of ...

This is completely beyond my abilities as a whatever, but perhaps you’re handy with The DIY? It’s a step-by-step on how to create a USB-based remote control receiver.