Teardown Corner - Leap Motion Controller

Lee Teshcler, Executive Editor, tears down the Leap Motion controller and examines the circuit boards and components. Watchdog timers, LED drivers, and optical sensors are all featured components of this product.

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Intro Transcript:

Hi, I'm Lee Teschler, executive editor of Design World magazine, and today we are going to tear down a clever little device called the Leap Motion Controller, which comes from a company called Leap Motion. The Leap motion controller has gotten a lot of press because it lets users create effects resembling those in the Steven Spielberg movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise controlled a computer just by making hand motions in the air.

The motion controller itself is just about the size of a cigarette lighter. It sits on your desk and uses two small cameras to detect when a hand floats above it.

Leap's controller isn't just for moving around the cursor on your computer screen. I'd have to say there are some pretty cool apps that have been written for it. One lets you pull stars around in a star field displayed on your screen. In another one, a school of fish follows your hand if it moves slowly. Waving your hand violently scatters them. Another app lets you dynamically create music using hand gestures or strum an air guitar to make chords and riffs. And I've even seen one app that lets you control an industrial Scara robot arm with hand gestures.

Obviously there's a lot of software expertise that went into making Leap's controller do its thing. But today we're going to look at the hardware behind all the magic.

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