{"id":19017,"date":"2018-07-06T19:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19017"},"modified":"2018-07-06T12:56:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T11:56:46","slug":"beating-spinal-muscular-atrophy-to-fire-a-gun-using-a-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19017","title":{"rendered":"Beating spinal muscular atrophy to fire a gun using a Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mike Phillips\u00a0has spinal muscular atrophy, leaving him only with the control of one eyebrow. However, this hasn’t stopped him creating a list of things to do that would rival most able-bodied “bucket lists”. One of the items on the list was to fire a gun, using nothing but his eyebrow. Bill Binko<\/a> and the team from ATMakers<\/a>\u00a0took this wish and “made it so” by setting up a Glock 17 to be fired with a servo (after they’d cleared the experiment with the relevant authorities, of course!)<\/p>\n

The interface with Mike’s eyebrow-controlled system was managed by using a Raspberry Pi Zero, an Adafruit Crickit<\/a>\u00a0and a custom circuit board to go between the two. A Pi camera was also used to enable Mike to ‘look down the sights’ and then take the shot.<\/p>\n

You can see two videos below about the project and read more about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n