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Hardware info - OpenKinect

http://openkinect.org/wiki/Hardware_info The illuminator uses an 830nm laser diode.
http://www.iheartrobotics.com/2010/12/limitations-of-kinect.html

I Heart Robotics: Limitations of the Kinect

or "Why do we still need other sensors if the Kinect is so awesome?"
Currently I am writing my master thesis using the Kinect and ROS. http://radiationlaboratories.blogspot.com/2012/02/compiling-kinect-fusion-on-kubuntu-1110.html

Compiling Kinect Fusion on Kubuntu 11.10

Grasshopper Canvas with Kinect Interaction: Part 2 | LMNts

http://lmnts.lmnarchitects.com/featured/grasshopper-canvas-with-kinect-interaction-part-2/ 1.Kinect Sensor | 2.Raw Depth Image | 3.Segmented Depth Image | 4.After Lowpass Filter | 5.Connected Component Labeling | 6.Particle Analysis | 7n.Gesture Filters | 8.Keyboard/Mouse Events In our previous post , we talked about our efforts to use the Microsoft Kinect to control a large-scale table-top interface running Grasshopper.

openni_kinect/kinect_accuracy - ROS Wiki

This page discusses both the precision and the accuracy of the Kinect sensor. http://www.ros.org/wiki/openni_kinect/kinect_accuracy
http://www.ros.org/wiki/openni_camera/calibration See openni_camera/calibration/electric for the instructions for Electric and later.

openni_camera/calibration - ROS Wiki

http://www.ros.org/wiki/kinect_calibration/ kinect : freenect | kinect_aux | kinect_calibration | kinect_camera | kinect_pcl Utilities for calibrating the Microsoft Kinect sensor. After calibration, the kinect_camera driver can produce point clouds with the depth and RGB readings accurately registered to each other.

kinect_calibration - ROS Wiki

camera_calibration/Tutorials/MonocularCalibration - ROS Wiki

http://www.ros.org/wiki/camera_calibration/Tutorials/MonocularCalibration Note: This tutorial assumes that you have completed the previous tutorials: ROS Tutorials .
http://www.willowgarage.com/blog/2010/11/22/kinect-ros-moving-forward-quickly The ROS/Kinect integration continues to progress quickly thanks to the efforts of the OpenKinect and ROS community.

Kinect with ROS

Mapping

ROS Contest Projects

The Kinect is an attachment for the Xbox 360 that combines four microphones, a standard RGB camera, a depth camera, and a motorized tilt.

Matt's Webcorner - Kinect Sensor Programming

ROS (Robot Operating System) and the Kinect

One of my master courses is called autonomous systems. It's a course, where we do stuff with the Pioneer Robot from MobileRobots and ROS (Robot Operating System) from Willow Garage. There are groups with 2 to 4 people.

Kinect connector pinout

Use the same type of 12V power supply an external HDD would use.
Debian users : Instead of doing the make and make install steps, you may want to build and install Debian packages. This ensures that the package manager (dpkg) can keep track of all installed files on the system. make debian sudo dpkg -i *.deb

openni_kinect - ROS Wiki

OpenKinect is an open community of people interested in making use of the amazing Xbox Kinect hardware with our PCs and other devices.

OpenKinect

Microphone Array