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Aarav Sharma is still at work.
If you subscribe to the Make: Substack, back in July you read about Aarav Sharma and the 3D-printed, brain-controlled robot arm he started building when he was 14.
Well it turns out Sharma hasn’t stopped working yet. Since then, he’s been busy expanding control beyond the arm into a wider communication system.
Enabled by a sponsorship from OpenBCI, he’s built a six-command Steady State Visually Evoked Potential (SSVEP) system. Think of it like eye tracking from the inside, or as Sharma explains, “SSVEP is a type of brain-computer interface where different targets flash at different frequencies. When the user focuses on one target, the EEG headset detects the matching response in the brain and converts it into a command.”
Sharma giving a short demo of his