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KineMech (Fall 2013)
This little humanoid is controlled by the user interfacing with the Kinect. Basically, this robot copies your moves in real time and rotates its servos to approximate your actual body position. Pretty nifty, eh? 

This little robot was built in 36 hours over a two day period for a Hackathon at Carnegie Mellon University. It got first place! Built by Luke Yount and John Choi, 2013.

Hardware:
-Voltage Reducers (9V to 3.3V)
-2 Tricolor LEDs
-Laser cut wood
-7 Micro Servos
-LOTS of wires!
-Breadboard
-9V battery
-Arduino
-Laptop
-Kinect

Software:
-Autodesk Inventor
-Autodesk Maya
-Uniduino
-Arduino
-OpenNI
-Unity

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