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Re: Konnect the Kinect?
Unless you have an enormous amount of free time, putting the Kinect on the robot at this time is probably not advised. There are a number of challenges:
-Mount the Kinect in a way to keep it alive (in general, the Kinect is designed to sit on a table and have people move around, not move around itself or get involved in 10-20 ft/s collisions)
-Get one of the cables to split the connector into power and data
-Power the Kinect off of the Power Distribution Board
-Plug the (now USB) cable into a computer of some sort, like a tiny laptop or single board computer running Windows 7, .NET framework, and Visual Studio (so it can use the Kinect SDK)
-Mount, power (again from the power distribution board), and program the computer which will be running on the robot
-Interface that computer and the cRIO across a serial port or Ethernet port
-Program the cRIO to understand these signals and take action
These are some pretty non-trivial challenges. Search around these forums, you'll find people have been discussing it for a few days now, and I'd say it's a lot of work for not too much reward.
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The first law of programming is that there are always ways of doing things quicker and in less space than you already are. - jgannon [more] 
11-01-2012, 18:09
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