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Kinect Hacks |
 | DIY Virtual Reality for Skyrim using Kinect
If you're a fan of Skyrim and you want to immerse yourself deeper into the game, this is the project for you. Learn how to build your own virtual reality setup which captures head and body movement and map them to your character in the... |
 | Incredible Personalized Interactive Mirror
Taking a step back from our usual DIY projects, here's a commercial project inspire your future projects. Looking for new ways to provide you with information about the world, this mirror can offer the morning’s headlines and a wide variety of... |
 | Incredible Battlefield 3 Gaming Simulator
The video above is nearly 20 minutes long, but it's definitely worth watching. This incredible project creates the ultimate gaming experience by emersing the player into the world of Battlefield 3. If you get shot, you get hit by paintballs. ... |
 | How to: Connect a Kinect to a MakerBot
Having an Xbox 360 Kinect and a MakerBot is a perfect combination for scanning and printing 3D models. Typically scanning an object is a complex process (although we have seen some DIY 3D scanners in the past). With this combination,... |
 | Brainport Vision Device Gives “Sight” Through the Tongue
Cutting edge technologies like the Brainport Vision Device are helping the blind scale new peaks; quite literally. The video above shows how a man uses Brainport to see via give the visually impaired a limited sense of sight through sensory... |
 | DIY Kinect-Powered DJ Mixing + Laser Show
We've seen some neat applications of the Kinect + Lasers before. This project utlizes the Kinect's gesture recognition to control lasers and audio to allow for custom DJ mix creation on the fly. It uses DMX protocol, Ableton Live, and custom... |
 | DIY Virtual Piano using Kinect
If you've got an Kinect and some spare time, learn how to create your own virtual, playable keybaord. The goal of the project was to re-create the Tom Hanks' FAO Schwartz Toy Store piano scene. Using a fresh Ubuntu install, this virtual piano... |
 | Kinect Finger Tracking = Minority Report Style Control
The Kinect is basically asking to be hacked into a Minority Report style interface. We've seem some similar Kinect hacks in the past, but this MIT project used the device to track individual fingers instead of the user's entire skeletal... |
 | Kinect + 3D Printer = DIY Souvenirs
With the combination of a Kinect and a CNC 3D printer, this installation allows tourists to create a souvenir of themselves. The person strikes a pose on the pedestal, and the image is converted into numerical code which is then sent to the 3D... |
 | Real Life Gmail Motion using the Kinect
On April Fools this year, Google introduced Gmail Motion which allowed users to control Gmail using gestures and body movement. At first, it wasn't anything more than a prank, but now it has become a reality thanks to the Kinect and some open... |
