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libfreenect

The libfreenect software includes all code necessary to activate, initialize, and communicate data with the Kinect hardware. This includes various drivers and a cross-platform API that functions on Windows, Linux, and OS X. The API will support bindings and extensions for the following languages/platforms: C, C++, .NET (C#/VB.NET), Java, Python, and C Synchronous Interface. The community is actively exploring the possibility of also exposing the API to OpenCV and MATLAB (both in progress by user Brandyn), AS3, Processing, and LabView (all in progress by user Ryan Gordon), and network sockets and data socket engineering.
May 19

Kinect RGB Demo

Nicolas Burrus's RGB Demo

For more information about this demo, check out: http://nicolas.burrus.name/index.php/Research/KinectRgbDemoV4?from=Resea... .

May 19

Multi-touch Tabletop Gaming

Creating a multi-touch capable gamin surface for tabletop games supporting both real and virtual objects

The Kinect™ Multi-touch gaming table project explores the feasibility of using the Kinect™ to enhance the experience of table top gaming over a long distance.  Unlike traditional software based implementations that offer a purely virtualized version of the game, the table is designed to accommodate the manipulation of both real and virtual objects.  The sensor technology allows manipulation of these objects in a natural way, not mapped to buttons or keyboard commands.  Combined with telepresence capabilities, the table can simulate a table top gaming environment akin to a tra

May 18
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Kinect RGB Demo

Wed, 05/18/2011 - 04:15 — jjg3359

Included in this post is a slightly modified version of the source code for Nicolas Burrus's RGB Demo 0.4.0 ready to compile in Visual Studio 2010 for a Windows machine. For more information about this demo, check out: http://nicolas.burrus.name/index.php/Research/KinectRgbDemoV4?from=Resea... .

File: 
application/zip iconkinect_rgb_demo.zip

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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 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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Apr 26

Quadrotor Autonomous Flight and Obstacle Avoidance with Kinect Sensor

Quadrotor plane controlled by Kinect

This work is part of the STARMAC Project in the Hybrid Systems Lab at UC Berkeley (EECS department). http://hybrid.eecs.berkeley.edu/Researcher: Patrick BouffardPI: Prof. Claire TomlinOur lab's Ascending Technologies [1] Pelican quadrotor, flying autonomously and avoiding obstacles.

Apr 26

DepthJS

A browsing hack

DepthJS allows any web page to interact with the Microsoft Kinect using Javascript.

Apr 26

Interactive puppet prototype

Control a puppet with the Kinect

Created an interactive puppet by using skeleton tracking on the arm and determining where the shoulder, elbow, and wrist is, using it to control the movement and posture of the giant funky bird! They have used openFrameworks and libFreenect

Apr 26

Minority Report Holo GUI with Kinect hack

"Minority Report" inspired GUI. Tracks hands for natural real time interaction.

This is a graphical interface inspired by the movie "Minority Report". It uses the Kinect sensor from Microsoft, and the recently released libfreenect driver for interfacing with the Kinect in linux. The graphical interface and the hand detection software were written at MIT to interface with the open source robotics package 'ROS', developed by Willow Garage (willowgarage.com). The hand detection software showcases the abilities of the Point Cloud Library (PCL), a part of ROS that MIT has been helping to optimize.