nick o’leary – eightbar http://eightbar.co.uk Raising The Eight Bar Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:38:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 Bang went the theory… http://eightbar.co.uk/2010/04/23/bang-went-the-theory/ http://eightbar.co.uk/2010/04/23/bang-went-the-theory/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:43:05 +0000 http://eightbar.co.uk/?p=1008 Continue reading ]]> As with yesterday’s post, I really don’t have to do too much work on this one, as the detail has already been written up elsewhere…

If you watched this week’s edition of Bang Goes The Theory on BBC1, you will have seen Nick O’Leary and Kevin Brown from IBM Hursley helping Jem and Dallas to drive taxis. That probably wouldn’t have been entirely revolutionary, had it not been done through a combination of an Emotiv brain-signal-reading headset, and some MQTT and Arduino funkiness… no hands on the wheel or feet on the pedals!

Nick has a great write-up of what sounds like a fun (but cold) event. You may still be able to catch the fun on iPlayer, or there are some clips over here.


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