Here are a couple of different Kinect projects that are ongoing in the world and interest us… CMU researchers and Microsoft have been working on “OmniTouch” a project that makes any surface a screen: Here is a similar-seeming hack that’s a mashup of Android-Kinect in a larger projector interface. Now if only we could find…
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Proliferation of Kinect Development
Type “kinect” into Slashdot and you can see just how much the Kinect technology is really kickstarting a lot of cool projects in the computer vision and robotics space. Here are some links that are interesting for us and, of course, more Kinect video stalking. Kinect gesture recognition has an open source project and here’s…
SLAM and Kinects for 3d modeling of a robot’s world
Here’s a video discussing how the Kinect camera (designed for Xbox 360) can be used with robots and SLAM to create real-time 3d modeling of a robot’s surroundings. (Head here for the full article.) It’s pretty cool. The project was created by Philipp Robbel (a PhD student with MIT’s Personal Robots Group) who used iRobot’s “Create” machines….
Lego robotic manufacturing
This is a great video of an automated manufacturing line made entirely with legos. Not quite what we do at Occam (we’re in the middle of welding one of the iterations for our product — which is a little more dangerous). But it’s still an awesome video. (Head here, for the full article.)