Coding4Fun Kinect Projects

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…

I've not seen many Metro Style Kinect project yet, so when I saw this I knew I had to include it in the Gallery. And the fact that it's an entry in the Imagine Cup competition is major icing on the cake... Kinect your Metro Style AppAs part of our Software Design project in Imagine Cup competition,…

Today's project by Erik Klimczak provides a great example of blending a couple different things together gives us something very yummy and tasty... Blob Tracking: Kinect + OpenCV + WPFWith the latest SDK release, the Kinect platform has become pretty robust – skeleton tracking, gesture…

Today's project will interest those looking to emulate other Windows input functions via Kinect by showing how the Kinect can work with the Windows Input Simulator (C# SendInput Wrapper - Simulate Keyboard and Mouse) project. 2FAAST KinectKeyboard events simulator using angles calculated by using…

Kinect is all about gestures, so it makes sense that there are allot of people inventing this wheel, building a means of capturing, describing and reusing gestures... Kinect RecognizerKinect Recognizer is a fully reusable component that implements 2D and 3D gesture recognition with Microsoft Kinect…

The second project in our "skeleton week" takes us a little further down the path of understanding and using this feature of the Kinect for Windows SDK Getting started with Microsoft Kinect SDK - The Full SkeletonArticle Index Getting started with Microsoft Kinect SDK - The Full Skeleton…

Today's project is one that's nicely polished and shows off a good bit of the Kinect's skeleton tracking capabilities as well as the motor control, video and depth features. Kinect Control for WPFYesterday, Esri’s Applications Prototype Lab released a sample for ArcGlobe that allows users to…

Today's project provides another learning experience, one where learning how to emulate/recreate the Kinect Hub on the XBox 360 is used to learn how to code with the Kinect and Kinect for Windows SDK Xbox Kinect Hub Remake - An Introduction To New User InterfacesI first started playing around with…

I've seen it asked a few times, "Where are the Kinect for Windows (aka PC) games?" Well I've been keeping my eyes open for them and so as soon as I saw this, I knew I had to post it. The source is not available, but at least the game is free. BTW, I found this via 123Kinect.com's New PC…

I've seen the question, "Can I or How can I use multiple Kinect Devices on the same computer?" a number of times but never answered in the depth or completeness that the below post(s) provide. If you're thinking or wondering about using multiple Kinect's, this looks like the must read…