That should be "way off working" On 15 March 2013 14:46, Julian Brooks <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Max & Matthias, > > Thanks for your suggestions. > > Guess I need to keep thinking/digging. I had spotted the Asus but have to > presume it will be the same with sunlight as the kinect. Hmmm. The kinect > is appealing as my friend already has one but from my reading around it's a > way of working properly on the RPi, getting closer yes but still not there. > > I have a memory that somewhere in the archives Hans mentions webcams and > light filters to make them u.v., might be an option, and importantly, easy > to do. Will keep updating. > > Best wishes, > > Julian > > > On 15 March 2013 06:55, Matthias Kronlachner <[email protected]>wrote: > >> hi! >> >> i think openni should be available for the rpi. >> and with the asus xtion i read somewhere its's working. >> i don't know about the kinect openni driver for rpi. >> >> without gem there is no ready to use solution for pd yet. >> but you could build your own openni external, activate the depth- and >> usergenerator and get the center of mass of detected users. >> this would not be too complicated, and everything you need can be found >> in pix_openni. >> >> i'm not sure about cpu load, this could be quite intensive for a rpi. >> >> but maybe there is already a standalone application doing exactly this >> thing and sending osc? >> >> matthias >> >> >> On 3/14/13 6:18 PM, Julian Brooks wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> >> >
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