I really like the work Robert Hodgin is doing with a Kinect and Cinder to map a texture onto the Kinect’s sensor output. Check out his Kinect pix on Flickr....
Posted by John Baichtal | Thursday December 2nd, 2010 1:07 PM
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Nathan Roberts wrote a great step-by-step on how he revamped a plain bedroom into something special for his son. And with the pixelated retro Super Mario theme, this should appeal...
Posted by shawnconna | Tuesday October 19th, 2010 11:55 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Home, Kids & Family | 2 Comments
Musician and musical robot maker Charlie Williams created this fun art piece with a combination of OpenCV (an open-source computer vision toolkit that provides, among many things, facial recognition) and...
Posted by John Maushammer | Tuesday August 31st, 2010 6:21 PM
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These liquid-filled tanks, designed by Graham Plumb, project light through a mixture of water and “a specially formulated emulsion” consisting of “micron-sized particles of oil formulated to stay suspended in...
Posted by John Baichtal | Wednesday August 25th, 2010 11:30 AM
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Ryan Palser, whose replica AER-9 laser rifle we covered a couple of weeks ago, has since finished up his second Fallout 3 replica, of the game's A3-21 plasma rifle, that...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Sunday August 22nd, 2010 7:43 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, Home | 3 Comments
I’m a sucker for this sort of thing… even if I don’t have 3D glasses. Augmented reality is taken to the next, all-immersive level in Keiichi Matsuda’s film, recently presented...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday August 10th, 2010 1:47 PM
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Ryan Palser, aka Flickr user citizensnips, built this impressive replica of the AER-9 laser rifle from Bethesda's runaway hit RPG Fallout 3. He's also got some work-in-progress shots of a...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday August 2nd, 2010 9:07 PM
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O’Reilly author Alasdair Allan (Learning iPhone Programming and the upcoming Programming iPhone Sensors) talked about using the OpenCV framework for face detection at OSCON in Portland, Oregon. In the video...
Posted by Brian Jepson | Sunday July 25th, 2010 1:11 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Fun & Games | 1 Comment
MIT student Robert Wang and professor Jovan Popovic have come up with a neat project, creatively titled real-time hand-tracking with a color glove, a gestural interface consisting of nothing but...
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday July 6th, 2010 4:37 PM
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Jamie Zigelbaum, a former student at MIT Media Lab, created a computer interface that takes the shape of an eyedropper. Slurp is tangible interface for manipulating abstract digital information as...
Posted by John Baichtal | Monday July 5th, 2010 5:52 AM
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Natan Linder upgraded his trusty desklamp, augmenting it with a robotic arm, pico projector, and camera to make the LuminAR.
Posted by Matt Mets | Thursday June 10th, 2010 9:01 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Furniture, Robotics | 2 Comments
A somewhat cryptic but fascinating tutorial on AR using Quartz Composer. [via Beyond The Beyond]
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday May 25th, 2010 12:15 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | 3 Comments
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