[RufflesRidge]

Dj,

Personally, I would be much more suspicious of the physical environment than of the cabling. The Kinect is fairly free to move around inside that black box that it is housed in, especially as robots collide with the field. It is also pretty easy to ratchet the Kinect servo so it is tilted up or down instead of straight ahead.

If you plan to continue trying to use the Kinect at your next event, have your Kinect operator make sure the Kinect is centered, pulled out towards the edge of the box (so the box does not block any of the image) and level.

If your laptop can handle it without trouble, you may want to run the Kinect Server in debug mode (the shortcut is in the FRC Kinect Server folder) to verify what the Kinect is seeing at the start of each match. If you need the screen real estate you can hide the debug mode window behind your dashboard after verifying that the Kinect is positioned properly.