Kinect usage at competitions

[DjScribbles]

We're at GVSU this weekend, we had the exact same issue in Traverse City with the USB hub. I would recommend hooking directly into the computer with it.

If your still experimenting with it, feel free to hunt me down (team 2474 ) just ask for the programmer (or Joe). I'd kinda like to see it working in any scenario, and to see if you see similar results (see my other post in this thread).

I'd love to pair up and work on it if you think you'll be spending some time on it tomorrow! (as long as I'm not too busy with our robot)

[Navi]

Originally Posted by Brandon_L

We use ours. For the first ~7 seconds, its preprogrammed shooting. Then control is givin to our kinect driver and our ball collector is turned on. Our kinect driver drives around for the remainder of hybrid trying to collect balls.

Team 840 is considering using a similar strategy. Because we have a reliable 12-point autonomous, we're keeping the first half of hybrid, then handing it over to the Kinect driver for zooming backwards and lowering the coopertition bridge. Though we experienced some lag or issues our last trial, hopefully we can get it working at the practice matches at SVR.

[Chad987]

987 is using the Kinect's IR imaging on the robot for distance. So far it has worked quite well. We also use the field kinect as an Emergency stop during autonomous.

[DoronS]

At the NY Regional, I don't remember seeing any teams using the Kinect. One team I talked to said they had used it successfully at another regional (Long Island?), but that it wasn't working on the NY field.

Our team found a use for the Kinect, although it probably isn't what this thread was meant for. We set up a cool demo in our pit where you could manipulate a 3D model of our bot on a projector just using hand gestures, Minority Report-style. Another team was using the Kinect to play a xylophone. If there's any interest in our Kinect-CAD project, I'm sure I could find a video somewhere.

[Dad1279]

Originally Posted by DoronS

At the NY Regional, I don't remember seeing any teams using the Kinect. One team I talked to said they had used it successfully at another regional (Long Island?), but that it wasn't working on the NY field.

Our team found a use for the Kinect, although it probably isn't what this thread was meant for. We set up a cool demo in our pit where you could manipulate a 3D model of our bot on a projector just using hand gestures, Minority Report-style. Another team was using the Kinect to play a xylophone. If there's any interest in our Kinect-CAD project, I'm sure I could find a video somewhere.

Our team had the xylophone demo set up. We used it at Rutgers/MAR last week, but to our disappointment it was unusable at NYC. It was not set up properly, and field personnel kept walking in front of us, so we gave up.