Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You

[DDSLoan96]

What you could try doing is incorporating Kinect into your Robot as it has depth and color perception built in and that could help in a game that may be like Overdrive...just a thought

[davidthefat]

Originally Posted by DDSLoan96

What you could try doing is incorporating Kinect into your Robot as it has depth and color perception built in and that could help in a game that may be like Overdrive...just a thought

Not exactly, you still have to write drivers for it and I am not sure if most of the image processing takes place on board on the Kinect or its processed on the 360 itself. Now it would be a pain in the butt either way. If it is onboard, there would be a fair amount of reverse engineering and getting the drivers to work, the second way, you have to program everything your self.

I am not going the kinect route like I mentioned before.

[AustinSchuh]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

Not exactly, you still have to write drivers for it.

It's already been hacked, and there are open source drivers for Linux.

[EricVanWyk]

Originally Posted by AustinSchuh

It's already been hacked, and there are open source drivers for Linux.

You forget that David prefers to create things himself. He'll create his own drivers just as soon as he finishes converting sand into processors.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by DDSLoan96

What you could try doing is incorporating Kinect into your Robot...

It's very likely that the Kinect's depth perception hardware will be prohibited on the robot under the "no lasers" rule. We'll find out next month whether it's an option.

I'd like to find out if two Kinect sensors pointed at the same object would interfere with each other. Does anyone here know if someone has tried it?

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

It's very likely that the Kinect's depth perception hardware will be prohibited on the robot under the "no lasers" rule. We'll find out next month whether it's an option.

I'd like to find out if two Kinect sensors pointed at the same object would interfere with each other. Does anyone here know if someone has tried it?

There is minimal interefernce between multiple Kinects when pointed at the same object as long as the devices aren't right on top of each other or pointed right at each other. We have not gotten this far at work, the above represents reports from the OpenKinect community.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

It's very likely that the Kinect's depth perception hardware will be prohibited on the robot under the "no lasers" rule. We'll find out next month whether it's an option.

Haven't IR range finders always been legal? [Standard disclaimer about last year's rules]

[mwtidd]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

I'd like to find out if two Kinect sensors pointed at the same object would interfere with each other. Does anyone here know if someone has tried it?

This video is first example I've found of two images being merged in a 3d environment. He talks about and shows the interference, which is fairly minimal.
Note the video is actually a 3d recreation, notice how at the end he is able to move around the space.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-w7UXCAUJE


also here's a video of mit's kinectbot
does 3d mapping and gesture recognition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRPEns8MS2o