Coding4Fun Kinect Projects

Today's project is one that I thought exhibits one of the greatest things about the Kinect, how it encourages experimentation and hacking (in the old, good, sense). Kinect racing chairHey, after watching this video (german language) or english version, in which Nico Rosberg explained how they sit in…

Today's inspirational videos shows how companies are integrating their technology and adding capabilities far beyond with the Kinect comes with out of the box Kinect Finger Recognition For GamesCogniMem Technologieswww.cognimem.com See our extended World of Goo gameplay video (controlled with…

It's been a long time since we've highlight a Kinect Button project. The Kinect for Windows SDK API has past by the previous examples, so when I saw Sandeep's project on CodePlex I know it was one that I had to highlight ASAP. And best of all, he's released the source for his project too! Kinect…

Today's inspirational video is another project by Bryan K Brown, last mentioned in Kinect & PAC's (Programmable Automation Controller), and combines mind control with the Kinect.  Kinect and MindWave Data StreamingJuly 2012 - This is a quick demo showing simultaneous data streaming from a…

You can tell that something is going mainstream in the Microsoft world when it gets a regular column spot in the MSDN Magazine. Yep, I'm saying that the Kinect is getting a spot, at least in the online edition of MSDN Magazine. Leland Holmquest, whom we last mentioned in Project Lily and…

Today's inspiration video with Dan Fernandez and Tim Huckaby is all about the Kinect in the "real world." Tim Huckaby: Building Real-World Kinect ApplicationsAt TechEd this year, we had a chance to catch up with Tim Huckaby, founder of InterKnowlogy and Microsoft Regional Director on what…

Today's inspirational project comes to us via Kinect Hacks and is a fun example of the Kinect and UDK. PixelbendingFor our course project in 3D User Interfaces, we chose to make a game loosely inspired by the hit show Avatar: Last Airbender. As the class was aimed at innovation, we created a…

Today's inspirational project shows how the Kinect is being used my a major corporation in the "real world." The World of Coca Cola with KinectLast week I posted a video showing Kinect head tracking with a transparent display from a company called Second Story. This is just one of the cool…

Today's inspirational project shows how the author combined the Kinect, XNA and his living room table into an awesome augmented reality experience. Augmented reality living room table - Simple 3D Brick-game (My latest Project)Hi,built a multitouch table for my living room, its only 50 cenitmeters…

Today's inspirational project connects two of our favorite things, the Kinect and a robot. My Little RobotThe motor control represents one of eight subsystems that work together: kinect servo motor control web cam speech recognition speech output weather input and interpretation rss news input email…