Thread: Kinect with FRC?
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Re: Kinect with FRC?
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Originally Posted by Govind Girish View Post
Hello,

I'm a student lead for my team, and I was thinking of having some of our programmers try working with Microsoft Kinect.

I have some of them going through the documentation and setting things up. They were wondering if there is any recent material to help us through this. It seems like the only documentation for using Kinect with FRC was written in 2011-2012.

Thanks!
Kinect is a really cool technology. Were you planning on using it as an input to the driver station, or were you planning on mounting it on the robot and integrating it with your robot application software?

Also, note there are some technology limitations to be aware of if mounting the Kinect on the robot: the point cloud data has a max range of 13 ft (it's designed to be used in a living room around a TV, so it can't provide range data across the entire FRC field), and also that if multiple Kinect's are used, the point cloud algorithm on each can get confused if Kinect A picks up IR data transmitted by Kinect B. These may not be issues for you, but it's something to be aware of.
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