MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
Photography
High-Quality Open Source Body Tracking Sans Kinect
Draw a bounding box around an object in the camera’s field of view and Zdenek Kalal’s open source Predator algorithm will continuously track it in real-time with just a standard webcam. That’s right, get Kinect-like body tracking without the fancy hardware. With all those front-facing cameras out there, just think of the mobile applications! Minority Report-style HCI, face tracking, improved visual search, and video stabilization are a few examples.
Inventor Portrait: Steven Sasson – Digital Camera Inventor
David has an interview with the inventor of the digital camera, he writes – This is my portrait of Steven Sasson, inventor of the digital camera. He was the 32nd inventor in my project. I shot him in October at Kodak’s headquarters in Rochester, just a couple weeks before President Obama awarded him the National […]
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool, we saw: Pillowcase Sundress, by thezenofmaking, Skull shirt attempt by loveandasandwich, and Ladies skirt 2 by needles and lemons,
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
Viscous Fingering from nervous system.
DIY Vacuum Pickup fromdrug123.
I don’t ? spurious oscillations fromRob Cruickshank.
IMG_0847 fromTimothy J Silverman.
Hirschmann Connector fromanachrocomputer.
Nintendo MAX Synth fromMichaelRucci.
P1100524 fromTimothy J Silverman.
Dark Side Of The Loom
I’m not crafty—like, at all—when it comes to sewing and fiber arts, but the pun and the photo were pretty much irresistible. From Aldo Cavini Benedetti. [via Dude Craft]
Lego Quadpod for an All-Terrain Camera
Peer Kreuger loves his Lego models so much he builds specialized dollies and other camera mounts to take pictures of them. His latest, a Quadpod, looks great for recording in adverse conditions.
