Never know when that’s going to come in handy - no pun intended. We picked up a few tips about building flexible fingers using heated vinyl tubing. The Leap provides more data than the hand has servos, so there was a bit of algorithm development.
#Kinect camera code#
Since he worked it out, though, you might find the code useful.Īn 8266 runs everything, although you could probably get by with less. The project seems straightforward enough, but apparently, the Leap documentation isn’t the best. You can see the project in the video, below. Using a Leap Motion controller, he can r ecord hand motions with no glove and then play them back to the robot hand at will. It isn’t uncommon to see a robot hand-controlled with a glove to mimic a user’s motion. Unfortunately the V2 is no longer in production, having been replaced by the more expensive, developer focused Azure Kinect. We’ve covered several Kinect-based projects, including a 3D room scanner and a robotic basketball hoop.Ĭontinue reading “Automated Sentry Turret For Your Secret Lab” → Posted in Kinect hacks, Weapons Hacks Tagged arduino, Kinect, servos, turret, unity It’s a fun project that illustrates how the Kinect can make complex computer vision tasks relatively simple. All it needs is a Portal-inspired enclosure. also added a secret disarming gesture (double hand pistols), which turns the turret into an apologetic comrade. If the intruder doesn’t comply, it starts an audible countdown before firing. When an intruder enters the Kinect’s field of view it immediately starts aiming at the intruder’s heart, issues a “Hands Up!” command, and tells the intruder to leave. The servo angles are calculated with simple geometry, using XY coordinates of the target received from the SDK, and the known distance between the Kinect and turret.
#Kinect camera serial#
He added scripts that detect a few basic gestures, issues voice commands, and generates the serial commands for the Arduino.
used the SDK in Unity, which allows him to choose which body parts to track. The Kinect V2 comes with SDKs that really simplify tracking human movement, and outputs the data in an easy-to-use format. The trigger switch is replaced with a relay, also connected to the Arduino. The Arduino controls a simple 2-axis servo mount with an electric airsoft gun zip-tied to it. The system consists of a Microsoft Kinect V2 connected to a PC, which runs an app to do all the processing, and outputs the targeting information to an Arduino over serial. has the solution for you, with a Kinect-based robotic sentry turret to keep them at bay. There are few things as frustrating when you’re trying to get some serious hacking done than intruders repeatedly showing up without permission. While you’re there, why not check out the list of entries? Posted in Holiday Hacks, Kinect hacks Tagged 3d scanner, halloween, Kinect, projector
Either way, don’t forget about our Halloween Hackfest contest, running now through Monday, October 11th. If you’re more into scaring the children, just rig up a coffin bell. ended up using a DSP math trick known as the inverse bilinear transform to be able to calibrate the system using the 3D scanner itself. Conversely, the calibration was challenging. used a Structure sensor for the 3D scanner, but you could easily use a Kinect instead. The setup is fairly simple, provided you can reliably affix your projector to something sturdy. It can handle one to four players, depending on the size of the projection, but says it’s kind of hard to track more than two at a time. The point is to stomp as many spiders as you can in a set amount of time, though you only need to stomp one to win. It’s so popular, in fact, that they have to have someone on duty with a vaudeville hook to yank spectators off the playing field. built this game a few years ago, and it has proved quite popular ever since. Trick-or-treating only keeps a kid so warm, and we would have loved to happen upon a house with a spider-stomping sugar-burning good time of a game going on in the driveway.
Even if it was fair and sunny the day before, you can count on Halloween being appropriately windy, cold, and spooky. We can count on one hand the number of times that we haven’t needed a coat on Halloween night around here.