UNLV engineering students show off futuristic prototypes
From: Las Vegas Sun - 12/05/2014
By: Ed Komenda

UNLV's Howard Hughes College of Engineering students presented prototypes of
products they dreamed up, designed and built all by themselves for the Senior
Design Competition. Judged by a panel of professional engineers, the students
were competing for a $4,000 grand prize.

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EEG Controlled Wheelchair
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Adam Wolverton, David Nguyen, and Edgar Solorio

What if you could control a wheelchair with your eyebrows? That's the idea
behind this invention, which uses a motor and EEG - recordings of the
electrical signals produced by brain waves - to move a wheelchair backward or
forward. The system is made up of a microcontroller connected to a Bluetooth
headset and a sensor placed on a user's forehead.

With the flick of an eyebrow, the sensor toggles through directions (forward,
backward, left, right) programmed into the controller. If you raise an
eyebrow and hold its position - or "focus," as the team calls it - the
controller will engage the wheelchair’s motor and the wheels begin to roll.

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Submitted by Drew Nelson