Experience of Highest Jockey With LeapMotion!

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This can offer to the experience of Highest Jockey! A user could emit a signal by Leap Motion during watching a Jockey’s view on the HMD. Which control a Darby robot on Raspberry Pi and Rodeo machine.

This product was inspired by 4 points below:

• What is effective.

• The maker movement.

• Entertainment.

• Robot.

So, we were trying to develop this Jockey robot. Among them, were especially put a force to make an atmosphere. We have some plan for improvement for getting a higher immersion feeling:

• Implementation augmented reality

• Synchronizing both HMD and Web Camera’s angle

• Extend the moving.

We try to make feasibility of the Leap Motion will be a product extension for robot from these plans.

Complete Environments

1) mjpg_streamer on Raspberry Pi

2) webiopi on Raspberry Pi

3) gort on client machine

4) Download hook for Rodeo machine

How to build and install

git clone https://github.com/LeapMotionDeveloperJp/ControllerRobotLeapMotion.git
cd ControllerRobotLeapMotion/MakerFaire2015
npm install
sed -i '' 's/\/dev\/tty.usbmodemfd131/\/dev\/************/g' RodeoMachine.js
node RodeoMachine.js
node Controller.js

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