Coding4Fun Kinect Projects

Today's inspirational project, coming via a comment from Bryan on his Kinect & PAC's (Programmable Automation Controller) project, shows off a new feature in the new Kinect for Windows SDK v1.5, Face Tracking. (I'm not sure what this says about me, but when I saw this, my first thought was,…

Today we revisit a popular project, Kinect Angles Version 2 - Learning angles by doing, that has just been updated and officially kid tested... Kinect Angles v2.4This release features a new camera sound when the game takes a picture, improved keyboard entry for high score names and other minor bug…

Today's project is another chapter in the free Kinect web book, Practical Windows Kinect In C#. hosted by I Programmer and takes us into the Video and Depth features of the Kinect and Kinect for Windows SDK Kinect SDK 1 - Depth and Video SpaceIn previous chapters we learned how to read in video and…

Today's inspirational project is an example of how the Kinect can again be used in an unusual and unique way to teach and training "movement." LightGuide: Kinect Teaches MovementThe latest job for a Kinect is to teach you how to move. In principle, it could teach you how to play the cello,…

Today's inspirational project shows off a usage of the Kinect that you might not have ever imagined... I mean who'd have thought of mashing up a Kinect with a... Kinect-enabled shopping cart is smarter than the shopperMicrosoft has just demoed a Kinect-enabled prototype shopping cart designed to…

Today's projects highlight two inspirational stories about how the Kinect might be used to help surgeons Kinect imaging lets surgeons keep their focus THE surgeon enters the operating theatre, covered in sterile blue scrubs. Machines beep and hiss. Nurses wait, tools at the ready: scalpel, forceps,…

Kinect for Windows SDK 1.5 - Face Tracking, Seated Skeletal Tracking, Kinect Studio, & MoreRob Relyea, a Principal Program Manager on the Kinect for Windows team joins us again on Channel 9 to discuss all of the new features with the 1.5 release of the Kinect for Windows SDK. Kinect for Windows…

So you've been working on your Kinect app or project, banging away night and day in Visual Studio and you're ready to show it off to the world. But now you need a web site too. It sure would be nice if there were some kind of Kinect App Web Site template available... Kinect App SiteThe Single-Page…

[A couple paragraphs of intro/comments] TUIO SKELETONHow It Works Thanks to the features of the Tuio protocol, it has been implemented a client-server system for the transmission of the skeleton data kinect “real time”. The results have been excellent opening new scenarios for the TUIO protocol…

Today's inspirational project (with download coming soon) is a great example of how the Kinect continues to help drive innovation in learning. Kin-Educate: An educational game for the KinectKin-educate is part of a research project exploring innovative ways to interact with computers, and what…