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So I've been working on my honors thesis/University Scholar project since the start of the semester and results have been, well... inconclusive. I've been working with some machine learning algorithms such as artificial neural nets (ANNs) and support vector machines (SVMs) in order to detect facial expressions from EEG data for part of my thesis. The end goal is to make my own API that detects more events and/or more accurately than the original SDK for my Emotiv neuroheadset and to send this data in a JSON format in a client/server format using a TCP socket. There's a bit more to it than that such as using it to improve my previous Mind-Controlled UAV project with blended commands and path-planning, but that's the gist of it.
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Yet again another open house has come and gone at UConn. I was hoping it would go smoother than the last one back in October when the drone I use for my mind-control demos decided it didn't particularly like the carpet in C80 and thus wouldn't fly. I was right (well, sort of).