Kinect controlled quadrocopters.
Posted: 07/04/2011 Filed under: technology, videos | Tags: kinect, quadrocopter, technology Leave a comment »Be your own souvenir by blablalab.
Posted: 04/05/2011 Filed under: technology, videos | Tags: 3d printer, blablaLab, kinect, miniatures Leave a comment »
As souvenirs go, a miniature replica of yourself — striking a pose of your choosing on Barcelona’s La Rambla street — is a far sight more original than a bullfights-and-senoritas snow globe. This past January, the hilariously titled BlablabLAB enlisted three Kinects and a RepRap machine to snap passersby and render them into personalized tchotchkes, in a project called Be Your Own Souvenir. Subjects stood atop a small platform, mimicking the human statues on La Rambla, as the Kinects captured their likeness in full 360-degree glory. The resulting images were then processed as a mesh reconstruction, saved as a G-code file, and then fed through a 3D printer — and voila, out popped the tiny statuettes.
kinected conference.
Posted: 04/04/2011 Filed under: technology, videos | Tags: kinect, Media Lab, MIT, skype Leave a comment »
By Lining Yao, Anthony DeVincenzi, Ramesh Raskar, Hiroshi Ishii from MIT Media Lab
What we can do if the screen in videoconference rooms can turn into an interactive display? With Kinect camera and sound sensors, We explore how expanding a system’s understanding of spatially calibrated depth and audio alongside a live video stream can generate semantically rich three-dimensional pixels containing information regarding their material properties and location. Four features are implemented, which are “Talking to Focus”, “Freezing Former Frames”, “Privacy Zone” and “Spacial Augmenting Reality”.
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fabricate yourself.
Posted: 03/01/2011 Filed under: technology, videos | Tags: design, kinect, microsoft Leave a comment »
Presented at the Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Conference, the setup turns a Kinect into 3-D scanner. The Kinect is hooked up to a Mac, and users can pose in front of it and see a real-time wire-frame representation onscreen. When they see what they like, they hit a button and they are captured in an STL (stereolithography) file. This file is sent to the 3-D printer, where a small, low-resolution model is finally spat out.
more at www.interactivefabrication.com
