This is a brilliant Kinect hack. Doctors at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto are using Kinect to manipulate medical images during surgery…
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Here’s a Kinect hack that may not be so welcomed by Microsoft or Sony for that matter: Shantanu Goel hooked Kinect up to his PS3. The setup is a little bit complex and janky with the Kinect hooked up to his laptop which is running the PrimeSense Kinect drivers. No PlayStation Move involved!
Today’s Kinect hack is one of those great, actually-trying-to-solve-a-real-world-problem Kinect hacks.
Michael Zollner and Stephan Huber at the Universität Konstanz in Germany have used a Kinect, some duct tape and a healthy portion of Sugru to put together a head-mounted Kinect system that can take in visual data as you move (including obstacle detection and QR code reading) and feed it back to the user. It’s pretty rudimentary right now but what the students have created is effectively a Kinect-powered artificial vision system. Awesome! Take a look at the Kinect hack video after the break…
This Kinect hack is London geekery at its best. At the UK Maker Faire, Tom Wyatt and the London Hackspace contingent put together something they dubbed The Evil Genius Simulator – two Tesla coils pumping out electricity at the command of a Kinect sensor set up tracking hand movement. It is pretty darn awesome and you can the electric Kinect fun in action after the break…
Another day, another Kinect hack but this one is useful! A guy called Mike used his Kinect hooked up to a home automation system to control his lights.
As Mike walks around the room, Kinect detects where he is and turns the lights on and off accordingly. This Kinect hack is simple but seriously effective and you can see it in action after the break…
Remember those tricksy seaside arcade machines with the claw? Well, the latest Kinect hack to pass over our desks reinvents the favourite of the Arctic Monkeys and the Toy Story aliens alike.
The creation from students at the Bartlett School of Architecture uses Kinect combined with Arduino and Processing components to mimic the movements of a user’s arm. It’s pretty ace and you can see it in action in the Kinect hack video after the break…
This may be the coolest Kinect hack yet. Combining Microsoft Kinect with a 3D printer, Joris Peels from i.materialize revealed the tool which scan people can create miniature 3D reproductions of them. The set up was put together by Karl Willis from Interactive Fabrication and its set to get improviments in resolution in the future to make the models more realistic. See the system, dubbed Fabricate Yourself, in action after the break…
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< ?p>Another Kinect hack for you: Harishankar Narayanan has hacked together a home theatre Kinect remote control set up by combining his Mac Mini with Kinect and motion-tracking using OpenNI.
It’s a clever feat but he says you can manage it to if you follow his instructions. Click through to see the Kinect remote control at work and follow the link at the bottom of the page for details on how to do it yourself…