Thread: Running the Kinect on the Robot.
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Unread 05-01-2012, 17:29
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Re: Running the Kinect on the Robot.
So it appears that I got some of the Kinect specs wrong. I apologize.

So I was thinking. From the looks of the Beta stuff the Kinect libraries are just wrappers for the official SDK. Which runs on windows.... And that lead me to the classmate. Could we just throw our classmate on the robot to act as a proxy between the crio and the Kinect. It could also handle the processing of images. Assuming we could power it, keep it safe, and keep under the 120 lb limit this may be the best option. It already runs Windows 7 so it will be compatible with the official SDK. We would then use our own laptop for driving. This is probably the cheapest (free) option for us. Does that sound like something FIRST would allow? I think it's legal now but they may release an update to stop that if it becomes popular.