Leap Motion Sound Board using Chrome & Linux Mint
Channel: Greg Bulmash
Date: 25/11/2019

This is a demo of me running a browser-based soundboard app that I created with JavaScript and the Leap Motion SDK. I created it as an easy "hands-on" demo for kids when Seattle CoderDojo is out at events.

I normally run this on Windows, but I hadn't logged into the machine in years, so I paved it with Linux and it ran excellently on Linux Mint 19.04. Installation of the drivers was easy, just "sudo leapd" to get the daemon running and away we go.

NOTE: Those three glows on the Leap Motion are probably the three infrared cameras that it uses to capture your hands in the air. When I used to sell TVs at Circuit City, one of our first diagnostics for a TV remote was to look at the infrared bulb through a video camera. Though the light is invisible to human eyes, it registers on a CMOS as a glow. So we could check if the remote was actually sending any signal by checking for that glow when we pressed the remote's buttons.