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9:19 am Tue
May 3, 2011
YouTube user emnullfuenf is experimenting with making custom, 3D printable Han-in-Carbonite models using a Kinect:
This is an experiment with Kinect and Processing. People in front of it are posing like Han Solo and get frozen in 3D. We are already exporting the 3D models for 3D printing. So stay tuned. The software will be open source soon if anyone is interested.Kinect Experiment: Freezing Han Solo (via Make)
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Here’s a demo of an immersive motion-controlled Disneyland simulator shown at this year’s E3: using a Kinect, players can run around Disneyland, ride the rides, and even hug Mickey (which is a total show-stealer). Star Wars Kinect & Disneyland Adventures – E3 2011 (via Wonderland)
A group of MIT students have used a Microsoft Kinect sensor-package to enable a UAV to map and fly circuits around a room: Students have developed a real-time visual odometry system that can use a Kinect to provide fast and accurate estimates of a vehicle’s 3D trajectory. This system is based on recent advances in […]
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If anyone is interested? EVERYONE is interested!
I’d like to see them normalize the 3D data against the carbonite plane (always bringing it up to the farthest point. They could also do some smoothing of the data (though noise looks cool), and they could apply a depth transform to keep the stark transitions to a minimum.
I work with the Kinect professionally… Cool project!
‘In the future, everyone will be frozen in carbonite for 15 minutes, then they’ll make custom iPhone cases with their robotic desktop fabricators’. With apologies to Andy Warhol.
A bit early, but…
May the fourth be with you!
(Have a happy Star Wars Day tomorrow!)
The countdown is on!
http://maythe4th.starwars.com/countdown.php
Of course we are interested! Let’s make it possible to upload straight to http://shapeways.com via the API!
Scan & print on demand!