Using Kinect to Design Your Robot

[davidthefat]

What is up with the flood of Kinect "hacks"? I mean its not new technology, there has been similar things in robotics for the longest time. I say KISS. Stick to the mouse and keyboard.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

What is up with the flood of Kinect "hacks"? I mean its not new technology, there has been similar things in robotics for the longest time. I say KISS. Stick to the mouse and keyboard.

You are correct of course, the technology behind the Kinect is nothing new. This is, however, one of the first times that technology like it has been available at low cost to tinkerers. Think of it as what happened when the Apple ][ hit. It wasn't the first one but it was the first one to be widely available.

[drakesword]

You got the thread wrong ... Should be: Design a Robot to use a Kinect.

hmm wonder what the g-force rating on these things are ...

[Andrew Schreiber]

I also want to share LadyAda's writeup on how to get started tinkering with USB devices. http://ladyada.net/learn/diykinect/ I found it quite an interesting read.

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by drakesword

You got the thread wrong ... Should be: Design a Robot to use a Kinect.

Yet then we'd have to begin all of the existential debates about whether or not the robot was beside itself...