RoBoard get depth image from Kinect

[roboard]

use libfreenect+opencv to get depth image from Kinect


See the kinect test at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSMPQj_Elr4

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[aether.robotics]

Brilliant, how did you manage to get this working as it is something i want to implement on my robot?

Regards
Chris

[roboard]

That is just an experiment to test the compatibility of Kinect with RoBoard (for our hobby projects). OpenNI SDK uses SSE instructions and doesn't work; so we employ OpenKinect:

http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page

Installing OpenKinect driver and using its libfreenect library, you can get depth images from Kinect on RoBoard.

[aether.robotics]

Hi there

Sorry been long time, been trying to get this working with ubuntu but get lots of errors when running glview, not receiving all the packets and something about magic then a hex code.....how are you geting it working so fast with xp? what version of XP are you using.

Chris Paton

[roboard]

.....how are you geting it working so fast with xp? what version of XP are you using.
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Hi,

we used WinXP SP3 and turned off all Visual Effects of WinXP to avoid UI performance overhead.

Then we just followed OpenKinect's tutorial to install their driver and library to get Kinect work on RoBoard.