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Originally Posted by F22Rapture
I see no benefit, or very little. Kinect is cool but not particularly effective.
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We programmed the Kinect for auton in our off-season last year. It was just for fun, and it was easy, but not at all intuitive to drive. To turn, you pushed out your hips, and to turn sharply, you did the robot arm sway while pushing a hip to the side you want to turn in, to go forward, double arm sway, to raise/lower the bridge, you lifted your left or right knee.
The students could control it just fine, but lowering the bridge required lifting your knee above your gut, so when one of our mentors tried it, he almost fell over trying to raise the bridge-arm
That being said, however, it can be useful for autonomous timing. Say you and another team both shoot at the same goal during auton. You can avoid any possible shot conflicts by writing a simple hand-raise-to-shoot kinect program.