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Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

By : Abhijit Jana
Book Image

Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

By: Abhijit Jana

Overview of this book

Kinect has been a game-changer in the world of motion games and applications since its first release. It has been touted as a controller for Microsoft Xbox but is much more than that. The developer version of Kinect, Kinect for Windows SDK, provides developers with the tools to develop applications that run on Windows. You can use this to develop applications that make interaction with your computer hands-free. This book focuses on developing applications using the Kinect for Windows SDK. It is a complete end to end solution using different features of Kinect for Windows SDK with step by step guidance. The book will also help you develop motion sensitive and speech recognition enabled applications. You will also learn about building application using multiple Kinects.The book begins with explaining the different components of Kinect and then moves into to the setting up the device and getting thedevelopment environment ready. You will be surprised at how quickly the book takes you through the details of Kinect APIs. You will use NUI to use the Kinect for Natural Inputs like skeleton tracking, sensing, speech recognizing. You will capture different types of stream, and images, handle stream event, and capture frame. Kinect device contains a motorized tilt to control sensor angles, you will learn how to adjust it automatically. The last part of the book teaches you how to build application using multiple Kinects and discuss how Kinect can be used to integrate with other devices such as Windows Phone and microcontroller.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using Kinect with a Netduino microcontroller


Another fun part of development is when we integrate Kinect with a microcontroller and send signals or data from a Kinect-based application to do some activities. With the microcontroller, we can wire up different electronic gadgets, such as a 7-segment board, digital alarm, LED display board, and many more.

Integrating these two technologies can help us to build a robust and real-life application, such as a home automation system, security system, controlling a robot, and so on. In this section we will learn how we can connect a Netdunio microcontroller with a Kinect and control the Netdunio on-board LED.

Required components

Other than Kinect, the Kinect for Windows SDK, and Visual Studio, to build this solution we need the following components:

  • Microsoft .NET Micro Framework

  • Netduino

  • Netdunio SDK (32-bit or 64-bit depending on the Operating System)

Microsoft .Net Micro Framework

The .Net Micro Framework is a subset of the .Net Framework, which does...