Kinect-controlled tesla coils: Evil Genius Simulator

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by metabrew • 15 years ago

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51Cards• 15 years ago

I so want one of these in my basement for those occasional moments when I'm plotting world domination.

Eliezer2• 15 years ago

World domination is such an ugly term. I prefer to call it world optimization.

BoppreH5• 15 years ago

It took me a split second to realize why you weren't citing the source.

So this phrase was just adapted into the book? I'm starting to fear you.

Eliezer2• 15 years ago

Don't get me wrong, I admire the hell out of this. But when you think about it, it's kind of sad that our civilization literally took until 2011 to get this far.

bhickey• 15 years ago

What marvels will the singularity bring us? Claustrophobic computers?

Murkin• 15 years ago

I designed and built the Tesla coils and there came along "The Hacking Gentleman"

tezmc• 15 years ago

The world needs more hacking gentlemen, with a monocle and their own mahogany-panelled laboratory.

ChuckMcM• 15 years ago

Very cool, I really enjoyed listening too BrightArc's coils play music at the San Mateo stop of the faire. Now if you could just direct the beam to where you are pointing you'd be all set :-)

BoppreH5• 15 years ago

An original hack with great (if very geeky) humor. I'm much more interested in Kinect's application in this sort of stuff than in video games.

Extra points for tesla coils, too.

_tef2• 15 years ago

I had a go on this.

It was awesome fun.

It happened on a whim - it was noticed the tesla coils were powered by audio, and we could easily get audio output from a kinect.

BoppreH5• 15 years ago

Audio? What if instead of kinect, we used a microphone? Maybe voice activated lightnings or a continuous electrical background for your phrases.

A whole new meaning for "thundering voice".

_tef2• 15 years ago

it is driven by pure sine waves -- you can't have polyphony or voice spectra (easily...)

Kinect-controlled tesla coils: Evil Genius Simulator

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