Frame from a pong game controlled by the Kinect

Pointless Pong with Processing and the Kinect

I did a quick excursion using the Microsoft Kinect in Processing with Daniel Shiffmans excellent Kinect library. Source code for Kinect Pong is here.

A laser module connected to two servos controlled by a small computer

A laser scanner for photographic experiments

I want to see how shapes appear in long exposures when they are lit by a computer controlled laser beam. Check Flickr for updates.

IR glove that lights up an IR LED when the index and thumb touch

Building a Wiimote glove for virtual card sorting

Thanks to Johnny Chung Lee, everyone and their mom seem to be setting up their own Wiimote whiteboards these days. I tried it too but disliked the pen-based interaction. So, I built a simple glove that allows you to pinch an object to drag and drop it somewhere.

A macbook, a bowl of water and a solar panel conected to the audio n port.

Water and Light Controlled Synthesizer (No Soldering Required!)

This was going to be my summer project, but after getting the parts I couldn’t stop myself from putting it together straight away. About a year ago I read an article about a guy who put together a synthesizer controller using laser pointers, a bowl of water, a solar panel and MAX/MSP. I can’t find the link anymore but it doesn’t matter when you want to roll your own!