Hacker Turns His Living Room into Mario Kart

Published on January 01, 0001

Good thing those banana peels are virtual, huh? In Japan, a gent named Ken Kawamoto used projection mapping and Romo, a robot that’s controlled via iPhone app, to “recreate betdog

Mario Kart” in betdog the living room. Kawamoto calls this “Romo Kart.” As noted on Hack A Day, there’s a Xtion motion sensing camera and a video projector hanging sbfplay from the ceiling, which track the Romos. sbfplay

The room is scanned and then a course is generated based on the objects in the room. Like so: The projection mapped game has Mario Kart-style items like banana peels, and there are also ufa747

power-ups. Kawamoto says there are plans to release the source code “when we find the time.”cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1643251557","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); RomoCart, a hack to turn your living room into a Mario Kart course [河本の実験室] Your Living Room Becomes Next Mario Kart Course [Hack A Day Thanks, Bakamoichigei!] To contact the author of this post, write to bashcraftATkotaku.com or find him on Twitter @Brian_Ashcraft Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in ufa747 every morning from 4am to 8am.

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