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Update -- MC Hawking now lives at Sudo Room | Update -- MC Hawking now lives at Sudo Room | ||
The kinect is mounted on | The kinect is mounted on mchawking, a.k.a. Noise-Bot the wheelchair robot, using hot-glue to hold it onto a piece of plywood. The plywood is screwed to the frame of the LCD monitor which is part of the robot. | ||
For people wanting to use the kinect for things like 3D scanning of objects or pretty much anything else, they are encouraged to try to use it without removing it from the robot. The robot has a linux machine for a brain and much open-source kinect software is installed, but if folks want to use the kinect on their own machine they can just unplug the kinect from the robot brain and plug it into their machine. The robot can also be moved to wherever is convenient for these tasks. | For people wanting to use the kinect for things like 3D scanning of objects or pretty much anything else, they are encouraged to try to use it without removing it from the robot. The robot has a linux machine for a brain and much open-source kinect software is installed, but if folks want to use the kinect on their own machine they can just unplug the kinect from the robot brain and plug it into their machine. The robot can also be moved to wherever is convenient for these tasks. | ||
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Andy was working on setting up a desktop/shuttle box in the space that can be more or less dedicated for Kinect use. The idea being that if we focus our efforts on getting tons of Kinect hacking tools in place on that box (once complete), then folks can hack and play with the Kinect without having to install all the tools from scratch on their laptop. | Andy was working on setting up a desktop/shuttle box in the space that can be more or less dedicated for Kinect use. The idea being that if we focus our efforts on getting tons of Kinect hacking tools in place on that box (once complete), then folks can hack and play with the Kinect without having to install all the tools from scratch on their laptop. | ||