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Cmon Guys, it's like no one has seen this yet??? It's time to KINECT!

Posted by Papachristos Chr on November 10, 2010 at 10:00pm
Open source KINECT drivers on the go!


Well it was high time someone won the Adafruit "competition".
Now on to exploit...uh..sorry making good use of his achievements!

See the vid:
http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/11/10/we-have-a-winner-open-kinect-drivers-released-winner-will-use-3k-for-more-hacking-plus-an-additional-2k-goes-to-the-eff/
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Get the drivers:
http://git.marcansoft.com/?p=libfreenect.git
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  • Mogly (Umesh Tharanath) November 12, 2010 at 3:29pm
    Kinect has different interface to XBOX. I was wondering is there any USB Converters we get in market. To connect to computer to program it. ?
  • John Owen November 12, 2010 at 6:38am
    I will warn you, the Kinect is packed with electronics. I have seen a slicle open photo of the internals of the device. It is packed in tight in there. One nice thing is the Kinect has a tilt servo that adjust to the item that it is tracking. Would be nice to add in a pan servo and let it go to work.
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    John Arne Birkeland November 12, 2010 at 4:22am
    I looking forward to pulling the box apart to see if it can be made smaller and more lightweight. The possibilities for a true depth mapped video camera are mind boggling.
  • T.D. Gonzales November 11, 2010 at 9:22pm
    I just like how the screenshot looks like it is linux.
  • Simon Wood November 11, 2010 at 9:57am
    This is certainly some really cool stuff (can hardly contain myself).

    Example of a point cloud extracted from Kinect (single) image:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/kylemcdonald/5167174610/

    Simon.
  • Kostas Alexis November 11, 2010 at 5:08am
    Wow this is amazing!

    It gives the opportunity of cheap and off - the - shelf indoor navigation, surveillance and mapping! Great work!
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