Kinect + Arduino | Tanner's Website
With an Arduino Ethernet, Processing, and a Kinect, I was able to easily create this little demo where hand movement can control a servo. This is just a tiny step in my master plan to create a robot clone so that I don’t have to leave my chair. <p>[Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page]</p> The following libraries and drivers made this work and also made it super easy for me to create it: OpenKinectDaniel Shiffman’s Processing Kinect Library (he knows his stuff and has great examples on his site)Arduino Ethernet UDP send / receive string Servo:EMAX ES08A Servo How it works: The Arduino Ethernet acquires an IP address and waits for UDP packets on a certain port.The machine with the Kinect sends packets to the Arduino that contain hand coordinate data.The Arduino then takes this data (an integer) and maps the range from 0 to 180 degrees.The mapped value is sent to the servo.
Getting started with Kinect on Ubuntu 12.04 – OpenNI, Nite , SimpleopenNI and Processing | ramsrigoutham
The objective of this tutorial is - 1) To install OpenNI, Nite (drivers that help getting data from the kinect) in Ubuntu 12.04. 2) To set up Processing and SimpleOpenNI ( OpenNI and Nite wrapper for Processing ) using which you can get started with Kinect coding. What you need? Kinect with usb cable and a computer with Ubuntu installed. It is not recommended to run Ubuntu as a wubi installer from Windows when working with Kinect. Better install Ubuntu in a new partition and run it. 1) Installing OpenNI and NITE 1) I highly recommend installing 32 bit versions of all even if yours is a 64 bit system. Tip: Instead of navigating to different folders using cd command you can enable Open in terminal option when you right click in any folder. sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal After installing type : killall nautilus && nautilus in terminal to activate the change immediately. Testing the installation: Connect the kinect and ensure that the green Led on it is blinking. . Errors in my case:
Mobile Autonomous Robot using the Kinect
Given a priori knowledge of the environment and the goal position, mobile robot navigation refers to the robot’s ability to safely move towards the goal using its knowledge and sensorial information of the surrounding environment. In fact, in mobile robot operating in unstructured environment, the knowledge of the environment is usually absent or partial. Therefore, obstacle detection and avoidance are always mentioned for mobile robot missions. Kinect is not only normal camera sensor but also a special device can provide depth map.Depth map is acquired through OpenNI library then processed by Point Cloud library to extract accurate information about the environment. Here is link of full project: (code + references in English, others in Vietnamese but still good to understand from the source code) Some fun stuffs using kinect are available on my channel.
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rosnodejs - Program robots with JavaScript
Rosnodejs is currently deprecated. Most of my efforts for JavaScript and robotics has been shifted to the Robot Web Tools project. I highly recommend taking a look at Robot Web Tools if interested in putting your robot on the web. Features include: JavaScript interface to ROS functionality 2D tools for mapping and more 3D tools for robot visualization in a 3D environment I still feel a Node.js interface into ROS is important. Rosnodejs is a Node.js module that lets you use JavaScript to interact with the Robot Operating System, an open-source robot framework used by many of the top universities and research programs around the world. Perform a range of robotic tasks, from controlling the motors on an Arduino to processing Kinect sensor data using JavaScript and Node.js. The goal is to make the field of robotics more accessible to the countless intelligent web developers out there. One of the top frameworks to program robots with today is the Robot Operating System (ROS).
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Kinect | Doc-Ok.org
I just read an interesting article, a behind-the-scenes look at the infamous “Milo” demo Peter Molyneux did at 2009′s E3 to introduce Project Natal, i.e., Kinect. This article is related to VR in two ways. First, the usual progression of overhyping the capabilities of some new technology and then falling flat on one’s face because not even one’s own developers know what the new technology’s capabilities actually are is something that should be very familiar to anyone working in the VR field. But here’s the quote that really got my interest (emphasis is mine): Others recall worrying about the presentation not being live, and thinking people might assume it was fake. Gee, sounds familiar? With the “Milo” demo, the problem was similar. The take-home message here is that mainstream games are slowly converging towards approaches that have been embodied in proper VR software for a long time now, without really noticing it, and are repeating old mistakes.
Gluciboat : un serious game pour accompagner les patients diabétiques de type 2
Ce jeu virtuel consiste en une croisière ludique en méditerranée. Chaque escale est l'occasion d'en apprendre un peu plus sur le diabète de type 2 et de progresser dans la compréhension de la prise en charge. Le 14 octobre, l'URPS Médecins Libéraux PACA et la Fédération Française des Diabétiques ont dévoilé une innovation, qui pourrait faciliter la prise en charge des patients diabétiques. Sur le même sujet Mais c'est quoi un serious game ? Gluciboat est plutôt considéré ici comme un outil d'éducation thérapeutique (ETP). Une nouvelle approche dynamique dans la relation patient-soignant L'intérêt, c'est que le médecin va pouvoir suivre à distance les progrès de son patient sur le jeu virtuel et adapter au besoin son suivi. Son contenu a été développé avec l'aide des Patients Experts des Associations de Diabétiques (AFD) fédérées de la Région Sud PACA et validé ensuite par des médecins endocrinologues. Voguer sur les eaux de la méditerranée pour mieux comprendre votre diabète
OpenGl - Tutorial 09 : Blending
Introduction Blending is commonly used to make objects translucent. To view and understand some blending effects, it requieres some learning on how OpenGl computes Blending. This is a little longer so I put this in a Lesson 3. It is highly recommanded to read it for an accurate understanding of this tutorial. Sample use of Blending In this tutorial, we will see some blending application, the technique part is written in Lesson 3. Make an object translucent Mixing Pictures Filter effect Many other other effects can be created with blending. Translucent object Translucent objects is the common use of Blending. Without blending, when an object is rendered, all pixels drawn replace existing pixels in the frame buffer. The Blending formula defined with glBlendFunc is : srcColor+destColor In case of multiple translucent object, disable the writting in the depth buffer (Lesson 3). You can control how the object is translucent. Translucent object Mixing pictures First Method The alpha value is 0.75. Keys
