Kinect with FRC?

[FIMAlumni]

254 had the best use of a Kinect in 2012 at Championships.
Here is a video showing the highlights.

[Govind Girish]

I was hoping for it to pick up signals from the Human player. For example, in 2014 (Aerial Assist), if the Kinect could see the Human player make a certain gesture, it would fire.

At the very least, I wanted to have hot goal detection (which I'm pretty sure you can use without a Kinect, but for some reason I thought it would be easier with one). We're still working on this. If y'all could point me in the right direction regarding hot goal detection, I would be very grateful.

[orangelight]

Originally Posted by Govind Girish

I was hoping for it to pick up signals from the Human player. For example, in 2014 (Aerial Assist), if the Kinect could see the Human player make a certain gesture, it would fire.

At the very least, I wanted to have hot goal detection (which I'm pretty sure you can use without a Kinect, but for some reason I thought it would be easier with one). We're still working on this. If y'all could point me in the right direction regarding hot goal detection, I would be very grateful.

For hot goal detection you could probably use a network camera that would have a higher resolution than the kinect.

[Electronica1]

Originally Posted by FIMAlumni

254 had the best use of a Kinect in 2012 at Championships.
Here is a video showing the highlights.

I feel like this is the best Kinect implementation in 2012 at championships. (I know it isn't video of them at champs, but you get the point )

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[EricH]

Originally Posted by FIMAlumni

254 had the best use of a Kinect in 2012 at Championships.
Here is a video showing the highlights.

Is it bad that I just start cracking up and I haven't even clicked the link yet? (I've seen the video before, mind you.)


Back on topic, orangelight is right. Particularly since this year, the use of Kinect was pretty much verboten during automode. (And given the blue box commenting on this fact, I would figure that it's safe to say that that particular use is not going to be back any time soon.)