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Yes hardware startup are sexy, but most of them are also very software-intensive. Leap Motion needs a lot of processing power, even for a simple visualizer app,
by pierrebouchet 14y ago
Yes hardware startup are sexy, but most of them are also very software-intensive. Leap Motion needs a lot of processing power, even for a simple visualizer app, and I bet Myo does too.
Other examples: guidance of things like the Sphero or the Parrot AR Drone are very complex. Usually there's a lot of maths involved, which has to be translated into software.
- namank 14y agoI would think they just map muscle contractions to commands for the drones. No math required except to parse contractions.
- abrichr 14y agoElectrical input from the body is extremely noisy. I wouldn't be surprised if they were using machine learning to train their algorithm to recognize which electrical patterns correspond to which muscles being activated.
- srlake 14y agoThe math behind this is actually rather complex. Heavy duty machine learning and statistical analysis.
- namank 14y agoWell of course. But that's DSP for parsing the muscle contractions, right? I would imagine you guys didn't do any application-specific math like guidance of the choppers..? Just curious!