The Leap Motion is a pretty brilliant new technology that allows user to control their devices (like a laptop) by waving their hands, moving their fingers, picking things up and putting them down, and other intuitive hand motions. Right now, the device is on pre-order for the general public, but we were able to get our hands on one. So, we did what we do best - we tore it to pieces.

The Leap Motion pre-teardown...

...and mid-teardown.

SparkFun Engineer Mike Hord took the Leap Motion and dissected it - getting it down to a couple PCBs and some enclosure bits. The teardown revealed some pretty cool hardware and some brilliant design work.

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We love seeing what makes new technologies like this tick! To see the full teardown, check out this tutorial.