Coding4Fun Kinect Projects

Today's project in a cool inspirational Kinect to Arduino to Helicopter hardware project...Flying a S107 RC Helicopter using the Microsoft Kinect and the Arduino UnoFlying a S107 RC Helicopter using the Microsoft Kinect and the Arduino Uno.The Kinect detects my hands, head, and hips. This…

Friend of the Gallery, Ray Chambers, has begun updating his many educational Kinect for Windows applications and tutorials to reflect the changes in the v1 SDK. In the coming weeks, I'll be dribbling out all his updates (if you can't wait you can also head over to his blog)Kinect SDK Full…

The primary theme for this week, like the last few, and probably the next few, is "v1". Projects, information, details, updates, etc related to the Kinect for Windows Sensor and SDK v1 release.Today is some information about default audio levels and how they might not be best for voice…

Another Friend of the Gallery and Coding4Fun, Den Delimarsky, has updated his cool KinectContrib project to be Kinect for Windows SDK v1 compatible...If you're writing Kinect apps, in C#, VB.Net or even F#, you should grab these Project templates...KinectContrib 2.0 released - now supports Kinect…

Today's inspiration videos show how the Kinect is being used to provide a musical, dance and visual experience unlike anything before....NoirFlux, Lambent Gambol & Kinect Point Cloud TestOur installations are first-person and highly immersive; we strive to produce a sense of wonder and surprise…

Ray Chambers, friend of the Gallery, is back with something doubles up the Kinect's classroom fun.What is Kodu?Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone…

A few months ago we highlighted a series of inspiration Kinect projects from students and faculty in China, The Kinect knows no national boundaries, as shown by Chinese University students pushing the Kinect's boundaries.Yesterday in, Students, now is your chance to join the Kinect Effect!, I…

Student? Teacher? Excited about the Kinect? Want a chance to win cool stuff and compete with your peers from around the world? Think you have an idea that, with the Kinect, will change the world?Join the Kinect EffectThe Imagine Cup 2012 Kinect Fun Labs Challenge asks students to think about…

Last but not least is one of those must have toolkits, one of those hard learned repositories of BST (blood, sweat and tears)...Coding4Fun Kinect ToolkitUpdated for Kinect for Windows SDK v1.0!This project requires the Kinect for Windows SDK. If you want to learn how to use the Kinect for Windows…

So this week we've learned about the Kinect and how to develop with it, we've read about the updated APIs and even some deployment tips.Today, let's look at a new Coding4Fun Kinect project and one that could open up some very interesting ways to build awesome apps.Image the Kinect (and PC) in one…