[Noisebridge-discuss] Kinect hacking

[Anselm Hook]

I'd be happy to help. I am free on these dates: http://hook.org/calendar .
This could easily be a 2 hour walk through tops - there is not much there.
The main thing is actually the family of digital media art technologies that
folks have put together - notably openframeworks and processing (as you
mentioned) - which turn openkinect into just one more tool in the artist
palette ( a rather amazing tool ).

For others reading this - in general the broader space of new digital media
critical art theory stuff is important too - maybe under appreciated...
participatory art and creative experiences let participants experience the
artist thesis more directly - it's an important emerging medium for personal
expression. If you look at the stuff on creativeapplications.net you can
really see how interactive art like this is being used to frame thoughts
that are sometimes hard to express as an essay - tangible interaction seems
to be helpful.

Oh btw you don't even have to hack it - the reason I think M$ accidentally
kickstarted a UI revolution - maybe even kickstarted the AR UI revolution -
is that you can buy a kinect for $150, separately, plug it in, read the data
off of it (no crypto) and use it as is... it's amazingly open...  3 weeks
ago this kind of tech would have cost 10+k.

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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Jack Perkins <jackaperkins at gmail.com>wrote:

> I had a chance to play with my buddy's (unhacked) kinect the other day
> and it struck me as a great device. Would anyone like to lead a one
> day intro/workgroup on running FOSS kinect stuff? I'm not much of a
> hardware guy but I'd love to stream the data into an environment like
> Processing. Anyone have a spare kinect that we can experiment with?
> Secondly, are there any methods of grabbing kinect data without
> changing the firmware? I think I could borrow one for use if this is
> possible as long as we return it in good condition.
>
> -Jack
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Anselm Hook <anselm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'll say this stuff is totally fascinating to me and I've been playing
> with
> > the hacker demos as well - they pretty much all run great on the mac and
> > since the openframeworks / opencv integration it is now a piece of cake
> to
> > use. Microsoft has accidentally seeded a revolution in user interfaces.
> > There will be a bit of this shown off tonite at Dorkbot as well by @qdot
> I
> > hear.
> > Here's what I want to do with
> > it: http://slowcode.makerlab.org/index.php/Main_Page
> > a
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Sai <sai at saizai.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/Kinect/index.html may be of
> >> interest.
> >>
> >> - Sai
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