| Making Things See Posted: 22 Feb 2012 03:32 PM PST 
Book Description This detailed, hands-on guide provides the technical and conceptual information you need to build cool applications with Microsoft's Kinect, the amazing motion-sensing device that enables computers to see. Through half a dozen meaty projects, you'll learn how to create gestural interfaces for software, use motion capture for easy 3D character animation, 3D scanning for custom fabrication, and many other applications. Perfect for hobbyists, makers, artists, and gamers, Making Things See shows you how to build every project with inexpensive off-the-shelf components, including the open source Processing programming language and the Arduino microcontroller. You'll learn basic skills that will enable you to pursue your own creative applications with Kinect. - Create Kinect applications on Mac OS X, Windows, or Linux
- Track people with pose detection and skeletonization, and use blob tracking to detect objects
- Analyze and manipulate point clouds
- Make models for design and fabrication, using 3D scanning technology
- Use MakerBot, RepRap, or Shapeways to print 3D objects
- Delve into motion tracking for animation and games
- Build a simple robot arm that can imitate your arm movements
- Discover how skilled artists have used Kinect to build fascinating projects
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. What Is the Kinect?
Chapter 2. Working with the Depth Image
Chapter 3. Working with Point Clouds
Chapter 4. Working with the Skeleton Data
Chapter 5. Scanning for Fabrication
Chapter 6. Using the Kinect for Robotics
Chapter 7. Conclusion: What's Next? Book Details - Paperback: 440 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Make (January 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449307078
- ISBN-13: 978-1449307073
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| Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 29 Posted: 22 Feb 2012 03:28 PM PST 
Book Description The first magazine devoted entirely to do-it-yourself technology projects presents its 29th quarterly edition for people who like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses for technology. MAKE Volume 29 takes bio-hacking to a new level. Get introduced to DIY tracking devices before they hit the consumer electronics marketplace. Learn how to build an EKG machine to study your heartbeat, and put together a DIY bio lab to study athletic motion using consumer grade hardware. Reviews
AWESOME!!
If you like to build things or learn about the areas of fabrication, creation, wiring and the like, this is the issue for you.
Home Automation, ABS Plastic fabrication, the works About the Author
Mark Frauenfelder is a writer and illustrator living in Los Angeles, and the editor of MAKE. He is the cofounder of the popular Boing Boing weblog and was an editor at Wired from 1993-1998. Book Details - Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Make (January 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449309941
- ISBN-13: 978-1449309947
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| Environmental Monitoring with Arduino Posted: 22 Feb 2012 03:18 PM PST 
Book Description After the devastating tsunami in 2011, DYIers in Japan built their own devices to detect radiation levels, then posted their finding on the Internet. Right now, thousands of people worldwide are tracking environmental conditions with monitoring devices they've built themselves. You can do it too! This inspiring guide shows you how to use Arduino to create gadgets for measuring noise, weather, electromagnetic interference (EMI), water purity, and more. You'll also learn how to collect and share your own data, and you can experiment by creating your own variations of the gadgets covered in the book. If you're new to DIY electronics, the first chapter offers a primer on electronic circuits and Arduino programming. - Use a special microphone and amplifier to build a reliable noise monitor
- Create a gadget to detect energy vampires: devices that use electricity when they're "off"
- Examine water purity with a water conductivity device
- Measure weather basics such as temperature, humidity, and dew point
- Build your own Geiger counter to gauge background radiation
- Extend Arduino with an Ethernet shield—and put your data on the Internet
- Share your weather and radiation data online through Pachube
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The World's Shortest Electronics Primer
Chapter 2. Project: Noise Monitor/LED Bar Output
Chapter 3. New Component: 4Char Display
Chapter 4. Detecting Electromagnetic Interference (and making bad music)
Chapter 5. Project: Water Conductivity/Numerical Output
Chapter 6. New Component: Ethernet Shield
Chapter 7. Project: Humidity, Temperature & Dew Point/4Char Display
Chapter 8. Real-Time, Geo-Tagged Data Sharing with Pachube
Chapter 9. Project: Radiation Counter/Sharing Data on the Internet
Chapter 10. Casing the Gadget Book Details - Paperback: 98 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media / Make (January 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1449310567
- ISBN-13: 978-1449310561
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Thanks for posting this! I'm trying to find information on Energy Monitoring Devices and this has definitely helped me in this process.
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