Using Kinect to Design Your Robot

[JesseK]

Forget driving a robot with the Kinect: go why not design your robot using multi-touch style Kinect libraries [arstechnica] and a projector? There is some interesting discussion in this youtube video's comments.

What would it take to use Kinect to manipulate any CAD software? What are the advantages? What missing features of a typical mouse/keyboard setup would need to be addressed?

Obviously there isn't a keyboard for shortcuts, but perhaps we could turn off the music for a minute to input voice commands for those things.

I wouldn't recommend modifying this season's build process to design a robot with Kinect (at least not yet), but perhaps it'd make a cool demonstration piece in the pits.