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You Can Create Fantastical Landscapes with a Kinect-Powered Sandbox. Here’s How

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.

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See Your Insides Animated Via Kinect with <em>Your Anatomy</em>

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, […]

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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.

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Building a Better You: Makers Hack the Human Body

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.

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