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There are many microcontrollers available to make robots with, but few that are built with the exact features that you would need to construct one. Meet the [EMGRobotics  MSP430G2553] robot controller board. At $15 without the CPU or $17 with a [MSP430G2553] already plugged into the socket, this control board may make some Arduino enthusiasts [...]

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It’s no mystery that we like the Kinect around here, which is why we’re bringing you a Kinect two-fer today. We have seen video hacks using the Kinect before, and this one ranks up there on the coolness scale. In [Torben's] short film about an animation student nearly missing his assignment deadline, the Kinect was [...]

Tags:  two-fer kinect mocap video-hacks animation-student robot-control kinect hacks