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USB Rocket launcher controlled with Kinect hack

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Uploaded by on Apr 9, 2011

I got myself a kinect to play around with. I decided to hook it up to a usb rocket launcher that I had lying around. It's done with a little bit of python, libfreenect and pyrocket. And no comments about the video editing - that was WAY more difficult for me than the hack itself! Oh, and thanks to my little brother Nils for filming it with my ipad 2. ;)

The source code is on github:
https://github.com/jwagner/kinect-experiments

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  • Epic! One question, though: how did you fire it?

  • @Maxaxle by pulling my hand behind the far plane, that's all.

  • lol nice man .. genius .. wish you the best

  • @maimouni92 thanks!

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  • dude this is super cool. What if you automated the turret and used kinect for target acquisition ? Maybe with some face recognition program ? maybe a robot voice " TARGET IDENTIFY YOURSELF" lol

  • @2009monarch thanks, glad you like it.

  • @2009monarch thanks, glad you like it.

  • cool!

  • @dshaff36 Cool thanks for letting me know! :)

  • That's a pretty clever hack! I saw this on Hack a Day, nice work!

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