Camera software learns to pick you out of a crowd

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While the Kinect is great at tracking gross body movements and discerning what part of a person's skeleton is moving in front of the camera, the device most definitely has its shortfalls. For instance, facial recognition is quite limited, and we're guessing that it couldn't easily track an individual's eye throughout the room. No, for tracking like that, you would need something far more … [Read more...]

Developing an animatronics platform

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This Predator costume has an animatronic element in the shoulder cannon. It tracks the movement of the mask, aiming wherever the Predator gazes. [Jerome Kelty] was asked by a friend to help develop the costume and he ended up with an animatronics platform which can be adapted for many different uses. Starting with an Arduino Pro Mini [Jerome] designed a host board which would breakout the pins … [Read more...]