Flapping Toasters

Embody a flying toaster.

Overview

This is a web port of Flapping Toasters, a 2011 Kinect installation that let participants embody the flying toasters of After Dark screen saver fame:

• Flap your arms at a steady cadence to keep your toaster aloft
• Clap to pop toast
• Tilt both arms to barrel roll

Play in your browser with a webcam. Up to six people at once can participate.

The source code for the 2011 openFrameworks + Kinect + OpenNI implementation lives in archive/.

Links

• Project page
• Process Blog Post
• Video
• The Scarlet S

Acknowledgements

This project was originally developed by Michael Edgcumbe and Eric Mika in March 2011 as a final project for ITP's 3D Sensing and Visualization class.

Thanks to Kyle McDonald and Zach Lieberman for creating the 3DSAV class. More student projects here: https://3dsav.blogspot.com/

Thanks to Wagner for the music.

Big thanks to After Dark for their brilliant and twisted screen savers.