What Will Happen if You Use the Microsoft Kinect SDK
I am totally 100% serious right now. Really. [Thanks, Rory Box!]
Fun & Games
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NXT Robotic Arm Owes Inspiration to Festo
Inspired by a Festo robot, NXT fan DiMastero built this robotic arm with a variety of Mindstorms servos, touch sensors, and even a pneumatic actuator. Also, good call on the Daft Punk. [Via Tinkernology] More: Make: Online | Festo iFab in action Make: Online | Festo CyberKite Make: Online | Festo AirJelly – robot jellyfish […]
The Ultimate Hot Wheels Track, in MAKE Volume 26
Out of the pages of the most recent issue of MAKE: California artist Chris Burden built a Hot Wheels track of epic proportions. Burden’s kinetic sculpture Metropolis II is a mesmerizing cityscape where 1,100 toy cars blaze down 18 lanes of freeways in endless loops. The work took Burden, his chief engineer Zak Cook, and […]
Microsoft Says Using Open Source Kinect Drivers “Voids Warranty”
So close, but so far :( I know that other drivers and development software for Kinect are available on the Web. Can I use the Kinect sensor device with these other drivers or software instead of the SDK Beta? No. Use of the Kinect sensor device is subject to its own warranty and software license […]
Microsoft Channel 9 Live’s day of Kinect SDK hacking starting right now
Microsoft just announced the availability of their SDK for Kinect and Windows 7. You can use the free Kinect SDK with the free Visual Studio Express to build cool Kinect apps on a Windows 7 PC. If you’re not using Windows, you can still do great stuff with the Kinect (Kinect Hacks keeps track of […]
Kinect Hackers Are Changing the Future of Robotics – The Real Story Behind the Kinect
Kinect Hackers Are Changing the Future of Robotics @ WIRED Magazine… For 25 years, the field of robotics has been bedeviled by a fundamental problem: If a robot is to move through the world, it needs to be able to create a map of its environment and understand its place within it. Roboticists have developed […]
Lego Street View Car
Mark Crosbie’s Street View Car is packed with goodies, including a NXT brick, a dGPS sensor from Dexter Indistries, a NXTBee module, some cheap “spy cams” for imaging, and Mindstorms and Power Functions motors to run the thing. It all started when was playing with the dGPS sensor from Dexter Industries, and realised that if […]
