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Track fingers with the Wiimote

Johnny Lee at Carnegie Mellon University figured out how to use the Wiimote's infrared camera to track his fingers, Minority Report style. Link.

(Thanks, Matt!)

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Posted by: gyro2222 on November 24, 2007 at 7:15 AM

Very innovative and well done. It would benice ot know how you interfaced to the PC.
What code did you use?

Posted by: justDIY on November 24, 2007 at 6:39 PM

Is it just me or did "jcl5m" revoke embed permissions on his vid?

Posted by: bekathwia on November 24, 2007 at 7:15 PM

Maybe just for non-logged-in users? the embed code still shows up for me.

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