Kinect-controlled tesla coils: Evil Genius Simulator

#1

Post by metabrew » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 5:00 PM UTC

Kinect-controlled tesla coils: Evil Genius Simulator
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#2

Post by 51Cards » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 7:03 PM UTC

I so want one of these in my basement for those occasional moments when I'm plotting world domination.

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#3

Post by Eliezer » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 7:05 PM UTC

Don'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.

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#4

Post by Eliezer » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 7:06 PM UTC

51Cards wrote: post #2

I so want one of these in my basement for those occasional moments when I'm plotting world domination.

World domination is such an ugly term. I prefer to call it world optimization.

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#5

Post by Murkin » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 7:15 PM UTC

I designed and built the Tesla coils and there came along "The Hacking Gentleman"

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#6

Post by bhickey » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 7:24 PM UTC

Eliezer wrote: post #3

Don'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.

What marvels will the singularity bring us? Claustrophobic computers?

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Post by ChuckMcM » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 7:29 PM UTC

Very 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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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 8:34 PM UTC

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Post by BoppreH » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 10:36 PM UTC

An 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.

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#10

Post by BoppreH » Sun, Mar 13, 2011, 10:39 PM UTC

Eliezer wrote: post #4

51Cards wrote: post #2

I so want one of these in my basement for those occasional moments when I'm plotting world domination.

World domination is such an ugly term. I prefer to call it world optimization.

It 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.