Coding4Fun Kinect Projects

Today's post isn't about Kinect coding or development, but it's pretty darn cool... Come on, what's cooler than using the Kinect to do 3D scanning and 3D printing... 3D Builder Tutorial Part 5: 3D Scanning with Kinect V2 In this video, Alex Blondin and Gavin Gear demonstrate how you can plug a…

Today it's not one project just a pointer to a bunch! Friend of the Gallery, Tom Kerkhove, through his Kinecting for Windows blog has a bunch of nice projects and samples on GitHub... github.com/KinectingForWindows Project Information URL: https://github.com/KinectingForWindows Project Source URL:…

Today's inspirational project is another great example of how the Kinect for Windows is being used to much more than gaming and in very unique ways... Kinect projector guides people up a climbing wall Can a computer help you climb a rock face? Perttu Hämäläinen of Aalto University in Finland thinks…

Mike Taulty, long time Coding4Fun Friend, recently presented at a London Kinect Hack Event on how to quickly get started developing with the Kinect for Windows v2. Lucky for us, he's shared it with us...; Here are just a few times we've highlighted Mike's work; Just face it... with these two Kinect…

Peter Daukintis, Microsoft Technical Evangelist, fills in a Kinect for Windows v2 sample gap, providing a means to connect to a Kinect web WebSockets and thereby a web browser... Kinect 4 Windows V2 – in the browserFor the older Kinect v1.0 there was a sample included with the Kinect SDK which…

Today's inspirational post provides a great view of how Ubi Interactive's very cool looking product can be used to enhance the classroom experience, without breaking the bank... Ubi’s Kinect-powered touchscreens: an affordable solution for the classroomVictor Cervantes was searching for a solution.…

So you've got a Kinect and all Kinect devices are the same, right? Nope. While the Kinect for Windows v2 and the Kinect for Xbox One are very close, much closer than the 360-vs-Windows v1, they are still a little different (the Windows v2 device doesn't have the IR Blaster). Should you always just…

Scott Young and new Friend of the Gallery InterKnowlogy, provides a nice tip for Face detection with the Kinect... Some other recent InterKnowlogy blogger posts; Face Tracking without a KinectKinect without a KinectKinect 2.0 Face Frame Data with Other Frame DataDo you have a project that you are…

Today's inspirational project is one that, well, sells itself... (and one that I want in my Man Cave :) Connecting with beer lovers, Kinect-styleA lost puppy and his Clydesdales stablemates may have commanded the advertising spotlight during Super Bowl XLIX, but for our money, the real marketing…

Paul DeCarlo, Kinect4NES (Yes, Kinect to a Classic NES), is back and continues to push forward on his cool project, Kinect4NES... Training Kinect4NES to Control Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out! In a previous post, I talked about how to create an interface to send controller commands to an NES based on…