Archive for nerdlab
wtf toilet poop robot
August 15th, 2009 • nerdlab
This is seriously fully wtf! And an awesome Idea.
I snuck RoboDump into the men’s room at the office. Unfortunately, today turned out to be the day of a board meeting. Whoops! It still went over well; the office was abuzz all morning with gossip about the guy in the bathroom. Several people theorized it was the CFO. The janitor commented to someone in the hallway that he wanted to clean the restroom but “this guy’s been in there all morning.”
laser toy
August 15th, 2009 • installation, nerdlab
Sticky Light, a 3D tracking technology that lets you interact with a beam of light, batting it from one hand to another, is the work of Alvaro Cassinelli, Daito Manabe, Kuribara Yusaku and Stephane Perrin. It uses a low-power laser diode, two steering mirrors and a non-imaging photodetector.
want one!
via wired
the future of handy apps
August 4th, 2009 • ar, nerdlab
Iphone demo with twitter and augmented reality. more
(via alina)
processing online
August 4th, 2009 • nerdlab, processing
Similar to wonderfl.net for actionscript compiling there is now a processing tool out there. Hit hascanvas.com and do some processing right in your browser. Awesome!
HasCanvas is a tool for creating and sharing Processing sketches and runs on John Resig’s Processing.js.
What’s a bokode?
Juli 28th, 2009 • 5 comments ar, nerdlab
A bokode is a new kind of marker. Smaller and robuster than printmarkers. I would love to get my hands on that bokode lights. The red dot is a bokode.
image via
Here is a explaining video about the technology.
multitouch without touching
Juli 27th, 2009 • hot, idea, installation, nerdlab
Kyle used a scanner for building a great multitouch which works without touching. Sounds odd – but it’s very cool!
Experimenting with a hacked portable scanner as a linear multitouch input device. Turns out there’s too much buffering in the scanner, which causes latency that makes it difficult to use. But the resolution is really high, if you ever need 60 fps 10,000 pixels wide, try this out!
Linear Multitouch + Scanner Feedback from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo.
Face / Mimik tracking in AS3
Juli 20th, 2009 • 2 comments ar, computervision, flash, hot, math, nerdlab
http://play.blog2t.net/terminator-salvation-realtime-machine-vision-as3/
Once again Tomek alias Og2t wrote a great flash demo. This time its about machine vision and just awesome. It’s motion based head / eyetracking with a lot of cool “hacks” like blob detection – histogram analysis – motion detection and more. Furthermore Tomek wants to provide a full framework.
This is a part of the whole video filter framework I am developing just now, the inspiration came from Joa Ebert’s Image Processing library (as far as I know, he’s cooking a complete rewrite). The full source code (including Pixel Bender kernels and examples) will be soon released on Google Code and will feature face/eye tracking/gestures and few other things (surprise!) A lot of people are very sceptic about the whole eye tracking idea, they don’t believe it’s precise enough to make any use of it – I will prove that it is, and it works! (just watch closely how it tracks my eyeballs on the video!)
I tried it, but I still prefer the camshift algorithm for face detection. Anyway: GREAT WORK!
multi object motion / direction tracking
Juli 18th, 2009 • computervision, nerdlab
eugene wrote a great demo on object motion / direction tracking.
Flash Motion Tracking [progress] from Eugene Zatepyakin on Vimeo.