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May 16

Kinect Flythrough Google Earth

Using the Kinect with Google Earth to navigate and fly through the environment.

Flythrough Kinect.

May 05
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Installing libFreeNect Drivers (Mac OS X)

Thu, 05/05/2011 - 10:20 — mxg7505

Warning: These steps have been tested on multiple Mac machines - not all installations worked correctly.

Using Homebrew

Note: This tutorial works best if you have a clean install of Snow Leopard. Otherwise, things often break due to library version conflicts.

last tested May 4, 2011

1. Download Homebrew

Install XCode if you don’t already have it ( http://developer.apple.com/xcode/ )

Open up the terminal and run the following line:

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May 03
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GlovePIE : FAAST :: Peanut Butter : Jelly

Tue, 05/03/2011 - 10:48 — jrs6268

They work together like ebony and ivory.

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May 02
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Installing libFreeNect Drivers (Windows 7)

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 18:03 — mxg7505
  1. Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/roboticslab/files/RGBDemo-0.4.0-Win32.zi... abd download RGBDemo-0.4.0-Win32 when prompted
  2. Navigate to where you downloaded it and extract it.
  3. Plug in your Kinect to the USB port on your PC.

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May 02
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Installing libFreeNect Drivers (Ubuntu 10.10)

Mon, 05/02/2011 - 17:44 — mxg7505
last tested April 20, 2011
Note: All instructions found below assume basic working knowledge of inputting commands via terminal

1. Open command-line terminal
2. get/use Ubuntu launchpad ppa:

     sudo add-apt-repository ppa:arne-alamut/freenect

3. update/resynchronize list of packages from repository:

     sudo apt-get update

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