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Giant disembodied face tracking eye

2010-04-15 17:51:48.00223+02 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

250 years of the industrial revolution have led us to this? The Rev. Hasty alerted me to Evil Eye: Microvision SHOWWX as a Face Tracking Eyeball, or a web cam doing face tracking, and a laser pico projector pointed inside a frosted globe from a bathroom light fixture.

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#Comment Re: made: 2010-04-15 20:32:40.418377+02 by: ghasty

if it wasn't for the $500 projector he used I'd be building one for halloween right now...will see if I can do something on the cheap

#Comment Re: made: 2010-04-15 20:33:17.047444+02 by: ghasty

oh, and your link is bad

#Comment Re: made: 2010-04-15 22:58:17.38645+02 by: Dan Lyke

Fixed it.

I've got a bunch of stepper motors lying around here, I think I'm going to have to see what sort of simple image processing I can slap together to make 'em look at movement.

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