Carlo Alducente's Blog

Last month, we decided to do some show-and-tell sessions at Zinc Roe where everyone had a chance to show some really cool stuff. My contribution was a little presentation on different ways to use the webcam to interact with flash applications. I had a blast reading up on some interesting webcam detection tutorials and articles, as well as putting some examples together myself.

Here are the topics I covered:

• Camera.activityLevel – A brief explanation on using the Camera object’s activityLevel property
• Bitmap.getPixel() – Using the BitmapData class to check for motion
• Augmented Reality & Marker Tracking – What it is and how it can be used in different applications.
• Moving MovieClips with your hand (or other limbs) using the webcam – An example of how you can use the motion detection stuff to move a MovieClip around the screen using only your hands and a webcam.

So check out my post over at the Metal Fish Eggs blog and let me know what you think!