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Kinect-controlled tesla coils: Evil Genius Simulator
- 51Cards 16y agoI so want one of these in my basement for those occasional moments when I'm plotting world domination.
- Eliezer 16y agoWorld domination is such an ugly term. I prefer to call it world optimization.
- BoppreH 16y agoIt took me a split second to realize why you weren't citing the source. So this phrase was just adapted into the book? I'm starting to fear you.
- sp332 16y agoSorry, which book? Feeling like I missed an in-joke here...
- adamta 16y agohttp://m.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality http://m.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Met...
- sp332 16y agoOh yea, I remember that. Everyone should read that! So uh, adapted into the book?
- BoppreH 16y agoAs in "I'm the mad scientist and I'll write a book containing my evil phrases". For specific definitions of "mad" and "evil", of course.
- adamta 16y ago(Oops, that's the mobile formatted version. Normal version: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M...)
- Eliezer 16y agoDon't get me wrong, I admire the hell out of this. But when you think about it, it's kind of sad that our civilization literally took until 2011 to get this far.
- bhickey 16y agoWhat marvels will the singularity bring us? Claustrophobic computers?
- Murkin 16y agoI designed and built the Tesla coils and there came along "The Hacking Gentleman"
- tezmc 16y agoThe world needs more hacking gentlemen, with a monocle and their own mahogany-panelled laboratory.
- ChuckMcM 16y agoVery cool, I really enjoyed listening too BrightArc's coils play music at the San Mateo stop of the faire. Now if you could just direct the beam to where you are pointing you'd be all set :-)
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- BoppreH 16y agoAn original hack with great (if very geeky) humor. I'm much more interested in Kinect's application in this sort of stuff than in video games. Extra points for tesla coils, too.
- _tef 16y agoI had a go on this. It was awesome fun. It happened on a whim - it was noticed the tesla coils were powered by audio, and we could easily get audio output from a kinect.
- BoppreH 16y agoAudio? What if instead of kinect, we used a microphone? Maybe voice activated lightnings or a continuous electrical background for your phrases. A whole new meaning for "thundering voice".
- _tef 16y agoit is driven by pure sine waves -- you can't have polyphony or voice spectra (easily...)
- BoppreH 16y agoI didn't mean to talk using the lightnings, just to make a background sound. Maybe map to the wave frequency to the speech volume or tone (harder). It would still be sine waves, but sounding slightly different based on the microphone.