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Today's project provides another great example of using the Kinect to teach time kids. I remember teaching my son time, using the position of my arms to help illustrate a given time. Now the Kinect, that becomes almost magical... Kinect Time version 1 releaseKinect Time is my second Kinect…

Today's project shows off one of the new features in the Kinect for Windows SDK v1.5... [# KINECTSDK] HowTo: Use Kinect as a green screen (I) (playing with the Rolling Stones)Buenas, The Bruno with the Rollings! Awesome… things that allows us to KinectSdk. In this case I have taken as starting point…

Today's WPF Wednesday project keeps us in the 3D realm, but this time in WPF. This very complete, free and open source 3D toolkit will wow you in all it's features and very complete examples and demos... Helix 3D ToolkitProject DescriptionHelix 3D Toolkit is a collection of custom controls and…

Another cool Kinect example from Tomoto Shimizu Washio, this time giving you your own superpower... Be Kamehameha of DragonBallz Using KinectTomoto Shimizu Washio, the guy who created the Ultra Seven Kinect hack has created the awesome Kamehameha hack. This gives you superpowers where you could…

Today's inspirational paper provides a glimpse into another unique Kinect usage, using it for tracking objects and not just people... Kinsight for Kinect tracks household items, finds the remote for youComputer scientists at the University of Virginia have developed a way to track household items…

In our continuing "Help you Build Metro" Monday series, Clint thought this project something you might find interesting. I've not highlight C++ projects very often, let along DirectX ones and so heartily agreed with him... SpriteBatch and BasicEffect for C++ Direct3D 11Over…

Today's Hardware Friday project really is pretty different and while there's no real hardware and there's no source, there is something that I thought all you hardware geeks might find pretty useful. So you're a .Net Gadgeteer builder. Your project is coming together and now you want to build a…

Today's inspirational project show just how far the Kinect is going... Satellites to employ Kinect to dock in spaceMicrosoft's motion-tracking camera and software is extending further beyond its initial gaming audience, with UK engineers planning to dock a satellite pair by using the Kinect.…

Today's project is a real fun project that shows off some serious C++ Kinect magic... kinect-ultraWhat's this?This is a Kinect Hack that allows you to Transform yourself to Ultra Seven. This program may freeze or crash on your computer. It may be caused by a bug, your GPU's capability, your…

Want some more fun coding battling bots? Want to take it to the next level and have tournaments of battling bots? Want to code your bots in C#, VB.Net or C++? Be able to easily edit maps? Have a built in code editor? Watch the battles in 2D or 3D? And have the source for it all? Marvin's…