Tanner's Website » Gadgets http://www.tannr.com My tube of the web. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:36:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Kinect + Arduino http://www.tannr.com/2012/01/01/arduino-kinect/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=arduino-kinect http://www.tannr.com/2012/01/01/arduino-kinect/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:05:22 +0000 Tanner http://www.tannr.com/?p=396 With an Arduino Ethernet, Processing, and a Kinect, I was able to easily create this little demo where hand movement can control a servo. This is just a tiny step in my master plan to create a robot clone so that I don’t have to leave my chair.

[See [...]]]> With an Arduino Ethernet, Processing, and a Kinect, I was able to easily create this little demo where hand movement can control a servo. This is just a tiny step in my master plan to create a robot clone so that I don’t have to leave my chair.

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The following libraries and drivers made this work and also made it super easy for me to create it:

OpenKinect
Daniel Shiffman’s Processing Kinect Library (he knows his stuff and has great examples on his site)
Arduino Ethernet UDP send / receive string

Servo:
EMAX ES08A Servo

How it works:

  1. The Arduino Ethernet acquires an IP address and waits for UDP packets on a certain port.
  2. The machine with the Kinect sends packets to the Arduino that contain hand coordinate data.
  3. The Arduino then takes this data (an integer) and maps the range from 0 to 180 degrees.
  4. The mapped value is sent to the servo.
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]]> http://www.tannr.com/2011/12/30/arduino-christmas/feed/ 0 Arduino! http://www.tannr.com/2011/05/17/arduino/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=arduino http://www.tannr.com/2011/05/17/arduino/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 04:28:03 +0000 Tanner http://www.tannr.com/?p=242 Pretty stoked to finally get one! So far I’ve dissected an old RC car and turned its wireless receiver board / remote into a volume controller for my Mac. I foresee many cool projects…

]]> Pretty stoked to finally get one! So far I’ve dissected an old RC car and turned its wireless receiver board / remote into a volume controller for my Mac. I foresee many cool projects…

]]> http://www.tannr.com/2011/05/17/arduino/feed/ 0 iPod touch as an auxiliary display http://www.tannr.com/2009/12/20/ipod-touch-auxiliary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ipod-touch-auxiliary http://www.tannr.com/2009/12/20/ipod-touch-auxiliary/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:16:51 +0000 Tanner http://www.tannr.com/?p=141 I played around tonight with making my iPod touch an auxiliary display. I thought it may be neat to just have random real-time public tweets cycle through on it so I made the following. As you can see there’s nothing too smooth about it yet – no AJAXiness implemented as this was purely proof of [...]]]> I played around tonight with making my iPod touch an auxiliary display. I thought it may be neat to just have random real-time public tweets cycle through on it so I made the following. As you can see there’s nothing too smooth about it yet – no AJAXiness implemented as this was purely proof of concept.

[See post to watch Flash video] ]]> http://www.tannr.com/2009/12/20/ipod-touch-auxiliary/feed/ 0 Avatar figurine lights up to sound http://www.tannr.com/2009/12/20/avatar-figurine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=avatar-figurine http://www.tannr.com/2009/12/20/avatar-figurine/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:52:30 +0000 Tanner http://www.tannr.com/?p=117 I think this is pretty cool for a Happy Meal toy…

[See post to watch Flash video]]]> I think this is pretty cool for a Happy Meal toy…

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