Brain Control Your Appliance, Sort Of
However, the package can sense biopotentials, and that lets you do things like change TV channels with a blink of the eye or a muscle gesture. That’s the gist of their project example on Instructables. Since the NPG has an ESP32 onboard, it isn’t hard to see that coupling it to an IR transceiver would be all you need to control anything with an IR remote.
- ▪However, the package can sense biopotentials, and that lets you do things like change TV channels with a blink of the eye or a muscle gesture.
- ▪That’s the gist of their project example on Instructables.
- ▪Since the NPG has an ESP32 onboard, it isn’t hard to see that coupling it to an IR transceiver would be all you need to control anything with an IR remote.
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Brain Control Your Appliance, Sort Of No comments by: Al Williams September 18, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy We aren’t sure we subscribe to [Upside Down Labs] description that their Neuro PlayGround Lite (NPG Lite) actually constitutes brain control in the science fiction sense. However, the package can sense biopotentials, and that lets you do things like change TV channels with a blink of the eye or a muscle gesture. That’s the gist of their project example on Instructables. Since the NPG has an ESP32 onboard, it isn’t hard to see that coupling it to an IR transceiver would be all you need to control anything with an IR remote. The real problem is reading things like eye blinks.
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