Desktop Laser Turret with Kinect Head Tracking

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Protect yourself with this badass desktop laser turret. Hit every Cornea of your enemy thanks to the depth tracking in Kinect. Preview: http://youtu.be/5igo_fVqvLI Working: http://youtu.be/tMSnQYZAMJc Remember to use protection goggles based on your laser wavelength! Instructions The laser adaptor works with any cheap DX.com laser, the current one is a 200 mW green laser but tweaked (internal potentiometer). Sketchup files are included if you need to tweak the adaptor, the hole is for the cable of the laser module. Print and assemble the turret. I used epoxy adhesive to assemble the servo clips on the printed pieces. Arduino Code (Servo handling): https://github.com/eried/LaserTurretKinect/blob/master/Arduino/LaserTurretKinect.ino Kinect Code (in progress, Head tracking uses the MS SDK, I am still thinking on making an auto calibration routine, i.e. finding a flashing laser dot or just a manual calibration): https://github.com/eried/LaserTurretKinect/tree/master/Binaries Sourcecode: https://github.com/eried/LaserTurretKinect