[pierrebouchet]

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]

I would think they just map muscle contractions to commands for the drones. No math required except to parse contractions.

[abrichr]

Electrical 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]

The math behind this is actually rather complex. Heavy duty machine learning and statistical analysis.

[namank]

Well 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!