Kinect4

Inspiration

The desire to connect real-world actions to a virtual environment

What it does

Allows you to play Connect 4 through a web browser using hand gestures

How we built it

• flask backend
• react frontend (js for Leap Motion)
• python AI (minimax with alpha-beta pruning)

Challenges we ran into

• Having to pivot to Leap Motion API after realizing Xesto API was not available
• Connecting the Python backend to the js frontend
• Handling AI interactions in edge cases

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Quickly learned to work with the Leap Motion API
• Successful interfacing between frontend and backend

What we learned

It's useful for everyone to know a bit of js (both client side and server side) to facilitate smoother coordination

What's next for Kinect4

• Allow for 2 player games
• Allow for visualization of AI algorithm

Built With

• flask
• javascript
• leap-motion
• python
• react