As you may or may not know local boy Greg Borenstein left us portland dorks off to go be amongst the gods of physical computing.
He just published his first Make/O'reilly book.
Making Things See: 3D vision with Kinect, Processing, Arduino, and MakerBot
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Things-See-Processing-MakerBot/dp/144930...
Check it out.
Don.
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