This Mirror Is Made of Hundreds of Pompoms
Daniel Rozin reinvents the mirror with furry pompoms and an Xbox Kinect.
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You Can Create Fantastical Landscapes with a Kinect-Powered Sandbox. Here’s How
These interactive displays use sand to allow you to scoop, smash, and splatter structures that are then analyzed by a Kinect and projected as a topographical map.
You are the Ship in Immersive, Life-Size Asteroids Game
Human Meteors is an immersive re-creation of the classic Atari game known as Asteroids.
See Your Insides Animated Via Kinect with Your Anatomy
You see yourself mirrored on a screen. Unlike a mirror, as you move closer your internal anatomy seems to be revealed, layer by layer. You can see your animated skeleton, muscles, and internal organs move as you move. Is this a new high tech X-Ray machine? Well no, but it’s still pretty cool. Diana Salles, […]
How to Make a Ball-Balancing Robot
The folks from Ufactory, a Shenzhen startup, have built a fun ball balancing robot that uses six omni wheels to keep the robot balancing on top of a soccer ball.
3D-Body Scanning With Joey Hudy
Joey Hudy returns to Maker Faire to present his senior project at ASU-HYSA: a full-body 3D scanner. It works by rotating a person on a small wooden platform while a stepper motor raises and lowers a PrimeSense kinect clone so it can scan your entire body using Skanect software. It generates a array of dots and then creates the mesh from the dots.
Building a Better You: Makers Hack the Human Body
Aided by affordable materials, 3D printers, and open source technology, the merging of human and machine is a thriving subset of the maker community. Next week’s World Maker Faire New York will showcase a number of these projects and the makers who made them. These projects are also a testament to the best impulses of human nature: once we possess new skills and technology we look for ways to use them as a force for good and to share them with others.
