Kinect Hacks

Tips & Tools for Motion and Pattern Detection

By: Jared St. Jean

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Paperback | 20 November 2012

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Create your own innovative applications in computer vision, game design, music, robotics, and other areas by taking full advantage of Kinect's extensive interactive, multi-media platform. With this book, you get a step-by-step walkthrough of the best techniques and tools to come out of the OpenKinect project, the largest and most active Kinect hacking community.

Learn dozens of hacks for building interfaces that respond to body movements, gestures, and voice, using open source toolkits such as openFrameworks, the Processing IDE, and OpenKinect driver library. Whether you're an artist, designer, researcher, or hobbyist, this book will give you a running start with Kinect.

Set up a development environment in Windows 7, Mac OSX, or Ubuntu
Build special effects apps with tools such as Synapse and Cinder
Create gestural interfaces to integrate and control digital music components
Capture the realistic motions of a 3D model with NI mate, Blender, and Animata
Design gesture-based games with the ZigFu SDK
Recreate the dimensions of any room in realtime, using RGBDemo
Use gestures to navigate robots and control PC interfaces

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Preface	p. vii
Getting Up and Running	p. 1
How the Kinect Works	p. 1
How the Kinect Was Hacked	p. 3
Choose a Framework and Driver	p. 4
Install OpenNI, SensorKinect, and NITE for Windows 7	p. 5
Install OpenNI, NITE, and SensorKinect for OS X	p. 7
Install OpenNI, NITE, and SensorKinect for Ubuntu	p. 9
Install libfreenect for Mac OS X	p. 14
Install libfreenect for Ubuntu	p. 15
Install libfreenect for Windows 7	p. 16
Install the Kinect for Windows SDK	p. 21
Programming Options	p. 25
Get to Know openFrameworks	p. 26
Install openFrameworks for Windows	p. 26
Install openFrameworks for OS X	p. 27
Install openFrameworks for Ubuntu	p. 28
Install the ofxKinect Add-on for openFrameworks	p. 29
Use Processing	p. 31
Install SimpleOpenNI and OpenKinect Processing Libraries	p. 33
Install Cinder-Kinect for Mac OS X	p. 33
Visual Effects	p. 37
Use Quartz Composer with Synapse for Kinect	p. 37
Draw in the Air with Processing	p. 42
.Create a Gravitational Particle Effect	p. 50
Make Objects Follow a Tracked User's Hand	p. 54
Dynamically Change Colors and Background Perspective	p. 59
Create a Live 3D Rendered Effect with Processing	p. 62
Create a Hairy Effect	p. 80
Create Hand Tracking Trails Using Cinder	p. 84
Gestural Interfaces for Making Music	p. 91
Install OSCeleton	p. 91
Install Kinectar	p. 94
Map Parameters in Ableton Live with Kinectar	p. 98
Set Up a Drum Kit with Kinectar	p. 100
Create a Dubstep Wobble Bassline with Kinectar	p. 104
Motion Capture and Animation	p. 111
Use Blender and Nl Mate for Motion Capture	p. 112
Record Motion Capture with Blender and Nl Mate	p. 115
Control a Rig in Blender with Nl Mate	p. 117
Use Nl Mate with Animata	p. 120
3D Object and Scene Reconstruction	p. 125
Install RGBDemo and Skanect	p. 125
Import RGBDemo Output into Blender	p. 128
Use Skanect to Create a Scene Mesh	p. 131
Use Processing to Create a 3D Scanner with Mesh Viewer	p. 133
Import a Scanned Object for Printing with MakerBot	p. 136
SetUpPCLandOpenCV	p. 140
Display a Colored Point Cloud	p. 142
Use Features to Track Camera Image Motion	p. 145
Fuse Point Clouds into a Consistent 3D Model	p. 151
Add Convenience Functionality to a 3D Model	p. 167
Next Steps: SLAM, OctoMaps, Surface Reconstruction	p. 174
Web Applications and Gaming	p. 177
Install the Zigfu SDK	p. 177
Create an HTML User Radar Using Zigfu SDK	p. 178
Install Scratch and Kinect2Scratch	p. 184
Create a Basic Tennis Game Using Scratch	p. 186
Build a Defender-Style Shooter Game with Scratch	p. 192
Build a Kinect Space Shooter Game in Processing	p. 207
Build a Processing Fridge Magnet Game	p. 218
Robotics and Natural User Interfaces	p. 241
Control a Robotic Arm	p. 241
Control a Robot's Navigation	p. 248
Use Candescent N UI	p. 248
Use Kinect Jesture for Mac	p. 250
Use Linux Gesture-Based Mouse Control	p. 252
Use Winect for Windows	p. 254
Index	p. 255
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