Coding4Fun Kinect Projects

While we don't highlight commercial items hear much, this one looks like a perfect exception. Rob Miles, Friend of the Gallery (Managing your Kinect with Rob Miles' Kinect Manager & The Purple Book... "Using Kinect for Windows with XNA") has a new Kinect book coming out July 2012…

Today's project come us via friend of the Gallery, David Renton and is another take on using the Kinect as a mouse pointer. Kinect Magic CursorI’m releasing 2 very small applications for Windows that are nevertheless invaluable. There is already software out there that does these jobs, but this is…

The last post for our Getting Started week is one that might help us when we take our second step, when we might have gotten started and are now moving on and want to avoid running into a gotchas or two... Gotchas with the Kinect SDK for WindowsPlaying with the Kinect SDK for Windows, and having a…

Today we're catching a level 200 TechEd Australia 2011 session by Bronwen Zande and John OBrien who takes us on a one hour journey through Kinect and developing with the Kinect for Windows SDK. Kinecting The Dots – Developing with the Kinect SDKThe Microsoft Kinect holds the Guiness World Record as…

Last week's as a "Theme Week" didn't do so bad, so we're going to it again, but this week we're going to focus on the Kinect and Education. First we're going to help you education yourself (as it relates to the Kinect of course! Kinect SDK - resources for developersThe official Kinect SDK…

Today's binary download, previous version highlighted here, Kinecting to Kodu, shows off one example of how the Kinect can be used to control existing applications, like PowerPoint the World Wide Telescope and more... Kinect Emulator–Version 2–Released! HAPPY EASTER!So while I was in Lisbon, Stuart…

Tango Chen, Friend of the Gallery, needs your help (and so do I). I've been encouraging him to release the source for his projects and he needs your help in testing his Kinect powered mouse cursor before he releases his source, so... Help me test Kinecursor, Please…This decides whether I will share…

I love seeing these kinds of projects shared. Skeleton's are a common need and in most cases are not the primary purpose of the app, just something to provide feedback. So why should everyone have to re-invent this wheel? Well we don't with this user control... Implementation of…

Today's inspirational project about how the Kinect can live in embedded, intelligent systems The Door is Open for You to KinectI’m not sure that many of you know this, but Kinect for Xbox 360 holds the Guinness Book of World Records for the fastest selling consumer electronic device in…

Dan and Rick delivered a great presentation on build applications for the Kinect with the Kinect for Windows SDK at TechEd North America 2012. How could we not highlight that? Coding4Fun: Build Fun, Cool, Commercial Applications Using the Kinect for Windows SDKCome to this must-see session to find…