Collaborate Disseminate
Those who prefer cabled rather than wireless headphones or earphones will likely be very familiar with a little control box positioned somewhere along the audio cord that’s used to control playback or take calls. Google researchers have now come up wit… Continue reading Google researchers control music playback by tapping a braided cable
When it comes to machine learning algorithms, one’s thoughts do not naturally flow to the 6502, the processor that powered some of the machines in the first wave of the PC revolution. And one definitely does not think of gesture recognition running on a homebrew breadboard version of a 6502 …read more
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Good science fiction has sound scientific fact behind it and when Tony Stark first made his debut on the big screen with design tools that worked at the wave of a hand, makers and hackers were not far behind with DIY solutions. Over the years the ideas have become much more polished, as we can see with this Gesture Recognition with PIR sensors project.
The project uses the TPA81 8-pixel thermopile array which detects the change in heat levels from 8 adjacent points. An Arduino reads these temperature points over I2C and then a simple thresholding function is used to …read more
Sonar measures distance by emitting a sound and clocking how long it takes the sound to travel. This works in any medium capable of transmitting sound such as water, air, or in the case of FingerPing, flesh and bone. FingerPing is a project at Georgia Tech headed by [Cheng Zhang] which measures hand position by sending soundwaves through the thumb and measuring the time on four different receivers. These readings tell which bones the sound travels through and allow the device to figure out where the thumb is touching. Hand positions like this include American Sign Language one through ten. …read more
The robot video was posted by Vitaly Bulgarov, a 3D modeler and concept artist. But damn, does it look cool. Continue reading This Gesture-Controlled Giant Mech Robot Looks Too Good to Be Real