Kinect hacked to change TV channels without a remote

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Great stuff for all us couch potatoes. A hacker has managed to transform Kinect into a remoteless changer of channels, in his own words -"I connected my Kinect and usb-uirt to my Mac Mini. My code i integrated wit OpenNI to detect the skeleton and I've programed it to find some specific gestures. The code will then send pre-recorded IR signals to the TV to Switch it on/off and change volume and channels on my set-top box." Sorry guys, you'll still have to click read more to view the video below. No gesture control for the web just yet!

Posted: Feb 17, 2011 8:38 am

Comments

-KrypTon-Posted: Thu. Feb 17, 2011

thats awesome i guess...but after a while it would get annoying because look at how slow it takes to change channels...yeah

matt0268Posted: Thu. Feb 17, 2011

He must of been working on that for a long time he needs a shave.

ZBrushPosted: Thu. Feb 17, 2011

After about a week of using this thing,
your arm will be stuck in a Permanent hand claw gesture

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