Coding4Fun Kinect Projects

While Christmas is behind us and the decorations put away, it's about that time to start going through our pictures. And there's few cuter pictures than this (plus it's a cool Kinect project too [#KINECT] Merry Christmas with Kinect and Visual Studio 2010 (gift of the Valentino)In these days of…

The second post in our Brady Gaster double-shot and the last in our Kinecting to Hardware week (though that's a stretch in this case), is one where the Kinect is used in a non-traditional way, but one that in hindsight seems pretty logical... The KinectonitorSuppose you had a some scary-looking…

The next in our Kinecting to Hardware week is kind of a cheat. I've already written and published this project, but on the Coding4Fun Blog, Connecting your Netduino to your Kinect, and not here in the Gallery. So incase you missed it there, I'll cover it again here (in Gallery form). Also…

The next post in our mini-Kinect to Hardware theme week post is an inspiration project showing how the Kinect was used control a living room, via home automation... Our Kinect Controlled living roomI have always been fascinated by home automation, I bought my first X-10 system ten years ago. My…

Starting February 1, 2012: Use the Power of Kinect for Windows to Change the World... Today, we are announcing that the new Kinect for Windows hardware and accompanying software will be available on February 1st, 2012 in 12 countries (United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland,…

Today's Kinecting to Hardware post provides a little background for how the Kinect actually works... From a robotic perspective. [Insert very weak quip, "Do Kinect's dream of electronic skeletons?" here] Though this project doesn't have any source/code, given yesterday's post, FIRST Kinect…

Our first post in our short Kinecting to Hardware theme week revisits Microsoft's participation in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), first mentioned on the Gallery here, A FIRST for Kinect. Kinect added to FIRST Robotics Competition Tool Kit. In this post we're going to round-up just some of the…

How can mixing F#, the Kinect for Windows SDK and LegoNXT not be cool? This might give you a few ideas to play with over the weekend... Lego KinNXTI've been having some fun playing with the Kinect SDK and the Lego NXT kit. The protocol to talk to the Lego brick over Bluetooth is pretty straight…

In the second of our Ray double shot, today we check out a cool project where he's created an "e-book" with the Kinect for Windows SDK. It's not an e-book about the Kinect but with the Kinect! Kinect E-BookSo… have you ever wanted to make Reading more interesting for Key Stage 3? Or Anyone…

No real theme this week, instead we're going to do a double shot from a friend of the gallery, one of our favorite Kinect SDK Educators... Kinect Tutorials by Ray ChambersIn June 2011, Microsoft released the Kinect SDK. This development kit has inspired lots of teachers and educators to try…