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#Leap Motion Controlled Sphero

A teacher at my son's school allowed me to use his Leap Motion over the weekend, I hacked together this quick and dirty script to control Sphero using it.

See it in action!

Enjoy!

##Controls

• Rotate finger to set base heading (it only rotates clockwise)
• Push forward to make Sphero go straight ahead (heading of 0°)
• Pull backward to make Sphero go backward (heading of 180°)
• Swipe left to make Sphero go left (heading of 270°)
• Swipe right to make Sphero go right (heading of 90°)
• Swipe UP or DOWN to stop

##Install

##Notes

• Set device variable to whatever device Sphero connects to your machine has
• It's currently oversensitive so multiple gestures might get triggered and result in some wild behaviour!
• There is a timeout of 2000ms to stop Sphero after each gesture to make sure it doesn't go to crazy
• Set the variable safeMode = false; if you are trying it out in water, it's much more fun and Sphero is a bit more mellow when in liquid