Meet Exuro, The Arduino-Brained Kinect-Tracking Flame-Shooting Bot
The robot Exuro is driven with Python, controlled with Arduino, tracking with Kinect, and best of all shoots fire every time someone donates to The Crucible in Oakland, CA.
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Free Kinect Webcast From Greg Borenstein, Author of Making Things See
Greg Borenstein, the author of “Making Things See: 3D Vision with Kinect, Processing, Arduino, and MakerBot,” is presenting a free webcast (preregistration required) on Wednesday, April 11, 2012.
An AR Desktop Behind a Clear LCD
Stevie Bathiche, director of Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group, introduces this video from GeekWire by explaining that “it looks like we just took an LCD and took the backlight off, but that’s actually not true. There’s actually been a lot of work that Samsung has done to improve the transmission quality of this display.” Be that as it may…
Making Things See: 3D Vision with Kinect, Processing, Arduino, and MakerBot
Microsoft’s Kinect is a fascinating piece of technology. It seems that every day a new, remarkable hack shows up using this device. Interested in using the Kinect in your own projects? Check out Making Things See, available in the Maker Shed!
Kinect Gesture-Controlled RC Helicopter
Impressive Kinect-based gesture-controlled RC helicopter.
Halloween Hack: Kinect Enabled Portrait of Vigo the Carpathian
In an excellent homage to Ghostbusters II, Eric used Processing and a Kinect to create a Vigo portrait with eyes that follow you as you pass by. With a little Photoshop help from his coworkers, Eric created this interactive display in just one day for his company’s Halloween-themed open house. It looks like a lot […]
New Early Release from O’Reilly: Making Things See (Kinect, Processing, and Arduino)
I’m proud to announce that my book, Making Things See: 3D Vision with Kinect, Processing, and Arduino, is now available from O’Reilly. You can buy the book through O’Reilly’s Early Release program here. The Early Release program lets us get the book out to you while O’Reilly’s still editing and designing it and I’m still finishing up the last chapters. If you buy it now, you’ll get the preface and the first two chapters immediately and then you’ll be notified as additional chapters are finished and you’ll be able to download them for free until you have the final book. This way you get the immediate access to the book and I get your early feedback to help me find mistakes and improve it before final publication.
