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Processing-openkinect is a project mainly written in C and C++, it's free.

Processing library for OpenKinect

OpenKinect library for Processing

Currently OSX only, please feel free to help remove that dependency.

Gimme the binary already! (Updated 17 Apr 2011)

If you don't care for building from source, there are a couple of downloads available.

17 Apr 2011

10.6 - Snow leopard: http://nrocy.github.com/files/kinect20110417.zip
10.5 - Leopard: http://nrocy.github.com/files/kinect20110417_leopard.zip

19 Dec 2010

10.6 - Snow leopard: http://nrocy.github.com/files/kinect20101222.zip
10.5 - Leopard: http://nrocy.github.com/files/kinect20101222_leopard.zip

Screenshot Porn

Methods available:

NativeKinect.init() - initialize the Kinect
NativeKinect.setVideoRGB() - output RGB video (default)
NativeKinect.setVideoIR() - output IR video
NativeKinect.start() - tell the Kinect to start streaming data to the library
NativeKinect.getVideo() - pull the latest video frame
NativeKinect.getDepthMap() - pull the latest depthMap frame
NativeKinect.getDepthMapRaw() - pull the latest depthMap raw data
NativeKinect.setLed(int) - change the Kinect LED colour (0-6)

Example:

import king.kinect.*;

PImage img, depth;
short[] rawDepth;

void setup()
{
    size(1280, 480);

    img = createImage(640,480,RGB);
    depth = createImage(640,480,RGB);

    NativeKinect.init();
    NativeKinect.setVideoIR(); // View the IR images, see also setVideoRGB()

    NativeKinect.start();
}

void draw()
{
    img.pixels = NativeKinect.getVideo();
    img.updatePixels();

    depth.pixels = NativeKinect.getDepthMap();
    depth.updatePixels();

    rawDepth = NativeKinect.getDepthMapRaw();
    println( rawDepth[0] );

    image(img,0,0,640,480);
    image(depth,640,0,640,480);
}

Build Requirements:

Prebuilt 32-bit libraries are included, so no external deps.

  • Xcode

Build Instructions:

Coming soon.

TODO:

  • More error checking
  • Implement motor control methods
  • Implement accelerometer methods
  • Remove OSX/XCode specific dependencies
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