A team of Greek students developed a gadget that will roast your Easter lamb just by using your brain and a computer software to translate brain activity into data! Last year this very same team had invented what we thought was the coolest Greek Easter gadget we had ever seen. Then, they had developed a system to roast a lamp on a spit using one finger to control it, called SouvLEAP. Watch the demo below: And as we thought Greek Easter couldn’t get any more awesome, this year the team of Greek students and their professor from the Technological University of Ionian Islands on Lefkada island made the absolute Greek Easter invention: a lamb roaster using electroencephalography (EEG)! This is not an April Fools’ joke – we didn’t believe it either when we were first contacted by the team behind the invention. However, we saw a demonstration and we can assure you that this system configuration works and actually makes Easter even more fun. Team G(R)EEKS, as they student-professor team call themselves, managed to literally blow our minds with their wireless system that turns the souvla (spit) by harnessing the brain’s electrical activity. If you don’t believe us you can see it in action in the video below. The video also combines an anti-bullying message together with a demonstration of the ‘please mind the lamb’ gadget, as the team has named it! How it works and the people behind “Please Mind the Lamb” “The wireless headset, a mini wireless EEG records your brainwaves and translates them into meaningful data you can understand and use to perform certain tasks,” explains Stamatis Dragoumanos the professor behind the unique project! “Because when you think, you can even make a roaster turn,” notes emphatically the educator who has to be one of the coolest university professors in Greece. He notes that “key to this year’s success, was just the right use of the brain.” “The most important thing in the whole process was that, the students learned new things about themselves and the emerging technologies around them, worked under pressure and lead by example for their colleagues,” adds Dragoumanos. Eventually, the students gave immeasurable joy to their responsible professor who ran this project-based educational class. The project called “Please Mind the Lamb”, was the motive to make their eyes shine once again. Technological Educational Institute of Ionian Islands at the department of Lefkada in cooperation with the IEEE T.E.I of Ionian Islands Student Branch. The project’s funny idea that one of Student Branch members had. Apart from others, the project includes the following: – Human Resources Management – Design and development of the Software in Arduino and C# – Design and development of the hardware – Rapid prototyping – Estimation of the final product cost – Optimization of the human-device interaction and device operations – Development of a marketing plan – Shooting this video
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