Remember Star Wars Kid? He needs to come of retirement and get acquainted with Yankeyan’s lightsaber Kinect hack.
Yankeyan created the hack using OpenKinect drivers and OpenCV, which provided image processing, tracking and rendering capabilities. The wooden stick was something I assume he had lying around the garage.
Pretty simple, but also pretty cool! [Youtube via technabob]
Simon Reidy
Monday, November 22, 2010 at 1:05 PMThe frame rate needs some work, but that is still ultra cool.
James Mac
Monday, November 22, 2010 at 1:18 PMHe’s moving pretty slowly, how does the software handle at higher speeds?