Flappy Boiler

The goal of the Flappy Boiler team is to create a museum exhibit that uses EMG signals that will be used to educate and introduce small children to the field of biomedical engineering. This project needs to be able to educate a relatively complex topic to little kids and attract little kid's attention, so the Flappy Boiler team decided to create a side scroller game using EMG signals as the controls.

The EMG signal is gathered by electrodes on an athletic sleeve. This signal is then amplified and filtered in order to have a clean, usable signal the game can use effectively.

The game concept is to be very similar to the internet phenomenon from a few years back, Flappy Bird. The game controls will work as normal, but instead of tapping a screen, an EMG signal will be used for a "flap." A flap will be determined by an increase in the EMG signal. Each time the user flexes their arm, their EMG signal rises, causing a flap. The user then will flex their arm in order to maneuver around different obstacles. This museum exhibit is designed to attract the attention of little kids, let them have fun, and teach them a snippet of what the field of biomedical engineering does.