Still More Kinect Hacking
Kinect hacking makes it into the NYTimes and CreativeApplications.Net has another great roundup of the week in Kinect hacking.
More Kinect Hacks
The Kinect hacks just keep on coming. Seems to me this piece of gaming hardware already triggered more playful hacking in its first 10 days on the market than the Wiimote.
First, a 3D box cloud renderer written in Processing:
Next, how to turn an entire room into a multitouch surface using the Kinect:
That last one heavily reminded me of the Microsoft LightSpace concept they demoed a few weeks back. I wouldn’t be surprised if they used some very Kinect-like hardware for that.
Open Source Kinect
CreativeApplications.Net has a great overview of open source development efforts around Microsoft Kinect. There are already libraries for openFrameworks and Processing available and there are all kinds of amazing things going on, but this is probably my favorite – a 3D video capture system:
Now i definitely have to get a Kinect. (Previously)
Kinect on Mac OS X
XBox Kinect running on OS X ( with source code ) from Theo Watson on Vimeo.
Grab the mac files here, or grab the source Kinect drivers from the libfreenect project here.
I might have to get one of these things after all.
Automatypewriter
The Automatypewriter is a typewriter that can type by itself and detect what is being typed on it. It is designed as a platform for playing interactive fiction games:
A new way to interact with fiction from Jonathan M. Guberman on Vimeo.
Dead Drops
Aram Bartholl is installing USB drives in walls and buildings in NYC that are easily and publicly accessible. The idea is to create an anonymous, offline, peer-to-peer file-sharing network. (via)
So you know: How the Twitter hack started and how it worked.
