Thursday, December 9, 2010

Kinect Hacks, Vol. II: Robots, Quadrocopters and an Invisibility Cloak

Kinect Controlled Robot
The modding and hacking community is simply having a field day with Microsoft's Kinect. It was just a couple of weeks ago that we highlighted a few of the fun and impressive things that people much smarter than us were doing with the latest in motion-controlled gaming peripherals. But those innovations already look simplistic next to the crazy things being cooked up in living rooms and labs across the country. The Kinect has been connected with impressive gesture controls and robots far more advanced than Roombas; even invisibility is possible with the aid of its depth-sensitive cameras and some fancy software. Keep reading after the break for a few recent Kinect hacks that got our attention.

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