if you want it to work outside in sunlight, that's impossible with the kinect. the infrared from the sun is much stronger than the projector of the kinect and will turn the pattern invisible to the infrared camera on the kinect.
Am 14.03.2013 um 17:18 schrieb Julian Brooks <[email protected]>: > Hi again, > > So after some more research I've come to the conclusion that the ultrasonics > aren't going to do what I would like - not a wide enough beam and unnecessary > accuracy. > > Perhaps if I say what I would like 'something' to do, someone may say "oh, > you want one, two, n of these". > > I have a digital wind chime thingy that now works ok on the RPi. What I > would like is to be able to put it outdoors with something that will see when > large objects, like people, are coming towards and moving away from it and > then I can make use of that data to send force in pmpd to the chimes and then > the chimes can klang into each other. > > Been looking at the kinects but it seems I'll need GEM to be able to explore > Matthias's very excellent looking freenect lib which is a no-no on the RPi > currently. > > My friend and I have rounded up a nice solar panel, we've got some old broken > soundstick speakers that we've hacked into and a weather-proof box plus a > pole to hang it all on. Should be a nice little project when it's done but a > we're bit stuck on this problem at the moment... > > Any suggestions people? > > Cheers, > > Julian > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
