A rumble in the distance. Big things are coming.
So, I don't wanna get toooooooo excited yet, but today was a very big day. I've talked before how before this I worked on nuclear fusion. So I'm quite used to vacuum systems and everything that goes along with them. This importantly covers coating of things with other things that you can't normally coat them with. Things like titanium nitride, or diamond. I've spent the last little while rebuilding my old setup since making some of the high tech materials I need for various projects turned out to be cheaper than trying to buy them (carbon nanotubes cost 1200 for a 4cm x 4cm forest). I've been building all day and have finished the day with a functional vacuum chamber that can be switched out easily for various purposes and allow for all kind of coatings. I'm waiting on a few parts to show up to really crank it up to 11 but now I can properly start researching these materials and the benefit of it will hopefully extend to all of you. I'll be able to make high quality mirrors for lasers and various projects, hopefully the nanotubes I desperately need and i'm working on boron doped diamond for use in neural implants. I'll post some pictures and videos of ym setup later but my hands are cut, soar and bloody and frankly I can't be bothered right now. This is still just the first day but if this continues to work this well and at this pace it'll be an exciting next few months.
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Anyway that's awesome it looked like you are really ready to get going. How long do you expect the growing to take when you start it up?
That's really cool that you will be able to do that does a diamond coating equal longer lasting or just stronger and more bio friendly?
How feasible would it be to tap the muscle signals in an arm and translate that to commands that work separately from actual full muscle movements? I'm thinking about picking up small signals that aren't strong enough to cause an arm movement but could still be trained for input to a computer.
There's almost certainly info about this in the medical literature for invasive BCIs such as the BrainGate but I actually looked into this a few years back and found no hard specifications.
I'll do some more hunting around myself and see if I can get voltage specs.
http://www.nysora.com/mobile/regional-anesthesia/3010-electrical-nerve-stimulators-and-localization-of-peripheral-nerves.html
Seems like a standard EEG-like setup could be used
http://www.academia.edu/359344/Decoding_Information_From_Neural_Signals_Recorded_Using_Intraneural_Electrodes_Toward_the_Development_of_a_Neurocontrolled_Hand_Prosthesis
I doubt single nerve fibers could be tapped in DIY surgery, but we could certainly come up with something.