[Noisebridge-discuss] Kinect hacking

[Rachel McConnell]

Kyle Machulis, aka qDot, is speaking at Dorkbot tonight on hacking the
Kinect - open dork, after the rest of the presentations.

http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/

Anselm Hook wrote:
> 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 <http://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.
> 
> a
> 
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Jack Perkins <jackaperkins at gmail.com
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>     <mailto:sai at saizai.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/Kinect/index.html may be of
>     >> interest.
>     >>
>     >> - Sai
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