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Re: Vision Tracking Lighting Idea

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Originally Posted by thaagbe View Post
Could you elaborate on this? Like actually placing the kinect *ON* the robot and using its camera. If yes then could you please tell us how my friend and I want to program this into our robot. Thank You

So....the Kinect projects an Infrared "beam" into the scene and depending on which driver/SDK you use(OpenNI, libfreenect, Microsoft SDK), you can get the IR feed directly from the Kinect. This feed is basically a grayscale image that represents the intensity of the Infrared received by the Kinect. Cool things happen with retroflective material (like that used on the Rebound Rumble targets). As for putting the Kinect on the robot...I dunno...Y U NOT KNOW????!!!!!!!