[Noisebridge-discuss] Kinect hacking

[Jack Perkins]

Oh no shit, This is the same talk with the guys from Jejune too!
Thanks for reminding me. Definitely going to this.

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:
> 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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