Kinect hacks, performance art: pin boards, puppets, RoboThespian and a X-Ray Magic Mirror

Microsoft's Kinect has seen some very clever and innovative things done from researchers around the world with minimum budgets. Hopefully the game development community is keeping notes.

Kinect Hacks Video Below.


Kinect Hack: Humanoid Robot with Motion Sensing Technology, @Cebit 2011, Hannover - Germany



We Be Monsters :: A Collaborative Kinect Puppet



Kinect Hack: Pin Boards


Kinect Hack: X-Ray Magic Mirror

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Open source DARwIn-OP bot can be yours for a cool $12,000

A few weeks the world got a peek of the open source, modular DARwIn-OP developed at Virginia Tech's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory, also known as RoMeLa.

A Korean company Robotis is making available the bot's open source software, schematics, CAD and fabrication manuals, in addition to selling the fully assembled robots. DARwin-OP was unveiled recently at the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, and is built on a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530-based FitPC2i which boasts a 4GB SSD, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, 802.11n WiFi. Shipments of the 17.9-inch tall humanoid robots are being sent to universities first at a price of $9,600, and will run $12,000 at full retail.

Just in time for Christmas 2011, who the hell would want a PS3/360 or even a Wii when you can get one of these bad boys. Can you say "SkyNet"

DARwin-OP Bot Video



[Linux Devices]

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