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Unread 15-01-2012, 10:51
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Re: Kinect or no kinect?

The Kinect Station is a display/feedback device. The Kinect is not plugged into it, and team code doesn't run on it. The Kinect Station is relayed the same Kinect Server data as the robot, and it draws the standard skeleton so that the driver knows if the Kinect sees their hands, feet, and other body parts.

The Kinect USB cable is plugged into the OC laptop and the Kinect Server on that computer does the work. Other OC computers have a Kinect Server running on them too, but without a Kinect plugged in, they will mostly snooze.

This configuration will also allow teams to know ahead of time how the Kinect will respond when you get to the field -- it is your code, your computer, and your robot, you are just borrowing the field Kinect and using the display for driver feedback.

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