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The Kinect Depth and Video Space

Today's project is another chapter in the free Kinect web book, Practical Windows Kinect In C#. hosted by I Programmer and takes us into the Video and Depth features of the Kinect and Kinect for Windo...

Lego's, IR and Netduino?

Today's Hardware Friday post takes three of our favorite hardware things and show us how we can make them work together. Really, what's more more fun then a series that helps us build hardware and wri...

Using the Kinect and a projector as a movement teacher

Today's inspirational project is an example of how the Kinect can again be used in an unusual and unique way to teach and training "movement."LightGuide: Kinect Teaches MovementThe latest job for a ...

Kinect-cart... A prototype Kinect-enabled Shopping cart

Today's inspirational project shows off a usage of the Kinect that you might not have ever imagined... I mean who'd have thought of mashing up a Kinect with a...Kinect-enabled shopping cart is smarter...

An introduction to Unity3D - A 30 minute getting started guide

A number of times I've mentioned Unity3D, usually with the assumption that you all knew what it was, how to get it and how to use it. Well you know what they say about when you  "assume" something.....

Operating Kinect - The Kinect in the operating room

Today's projects highlight two inspirational stories about how the Kinect might be used to help surgeonsKinect imaging lets surgeons keep their focusTHE surgeon enters the operating theatre, covered i...

[Special Edition] Kinect for Windows SDK v1.5 now available

Kinect for Windows SDK 1.5 - Face Tracking, Seated Skeletal Tracking, Kinect Studio, & MoreRob Relyea, a Principal Program Manager on the Kinect for Windows team joins us again on Channel 9 to discuss...

Project Detroit: Lighting System

In this article, we give a detailed look into the external lighting system of Project Detroit, the Microsoft-West Coast Custom Mustang creation. If you're not already familiar with this project, you c...

Got an Kinect App? Need a web site? Here's a template for you...

So you've been working on your Kinect app or project, banging away night and day in Visual Studio and you're ready to show it off to the world. But now you need a web site too. It sure would be nice i...

Gestating your Metro Style App with Cocoon

Today's Metro Monday project is a framework that will help you in your creation of Windows 8 Metro Style applications, helping take a little of the grunt work out, while helping build applications wit...

Connecting to Kinect over the wire via TUIO Skeleton

[A couple paragraphs of intro/comments]TUIO SKELETONHow It WorksThanks to the features of the Tuio protocol, it has been implemented a client-server system for the transmission of the skeleton data ki...

A triple dose of the .NET Micro Framework. Netduino, .NET Gadgeteer and a FEZ Hydra Basic Kit

Today's Hardware Friday is a triple dose of .NET Micro Framework and .NET Gadgeteer getting started, into, kicked off, hooked, what are they and getting started posts.From a slide deck and great link ...

Kin-Educate

Today's inspirational project (with download coming soon) is a great example of how the Kinect continues to help drive innovation in learning.Kin-Educate: An educational game for the KinectKin-educate...

Put down the measuring tape. Using the Kinect to find your height

When I saw this, the first thing I thought was just how cool a thing an amusement park could build with this. Gone could be the days of the "You must be taller than this bar," instead replaced with ...

Welcome to the IGF, Indiefreaks Game Framework

Today's project is a kind that I don't usually highlight, one that relies on a commercial third party SDK, but I really appreciated the author's intent and goals with it. I just can't get enough of pe...

"Game Development with XNA and Microsoft Technologies: Kinect Development"

Teaching resources have a special place in my heart and in seeing this course, 34 class rooms sessions, with all the lesson plans, resources, labs, etc for learning to develop with the Kinect, well, h...

Project Detroit: An Overview

In this article, we will give an overview of the technical side of Project Detroit, the Microsoft-West Coast Custom Mustang creation. If you're not already familiar with this project, you can find mor...

Kinecting to your Anatomy with S.A.G.E.

Today's inspirational project is one that you just have to see to believe. It shows how the Kinect, melded with a projector can make learning (and more) into something fairly amazing...Spatial Augment...

From Windows Phone 7 to Windows 8 Metro, one app's journey

Last week we highlighted Den Delimarsky's Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone 7 app. On this Metro Monday, seems fitting to pair that post up with this one.With Windows 8 and Metro a common q...

"Recovering Gracefully from Loss of Skeletal Tracking"

Today's project is a sharing of lessons learned by Carl Franklin while creating his GesturePak project (GesturePak (Beta) for the Kinect - A "no code" gesture recording and matching library)Recoveri...

Making beautiful MIDI music (with .Net Gadgeteer)

Today's Hardware Friday post is in an area that I've not cover much, making music with .Net Gadgeteer projects using one of the older digital interfaces around, MIDI.Gadgeteer and MIDI: Making Music w...

WebSocketing the Kinect with Kinection

This week's project provides another means to remotely connect to a Kinect, this time using Websockets...Valentia KinectionValentia Kinection is open source community project. Purpose of Kinection is ...

Kinect to Mayhem

Have you heard of Mayhem (and here)?"An open source application with a near-zero learning curve. Mayhem provides a collection of triggers events and reactions, allowing non-programmers to use their c...

Building Battling Bots with DumbBots.Net

Today's project was one that I just happened across and I thought kind of cool, I mean what's more fun than programming bots to hunt down a kill each other? (Answer: Playing with the source of the pro...

Kinect for Silverlight 5

Today's project shows how even Silverlight can get into the Kinect game...Kinect for SilverlightIn this project you will find a Silverlight 5 library for the Kinect. This is made possible by using the...

Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone

While it's very possible we're nearing a gamification bubble bust (gamepocalypse?) [evidence], it doesn't mean getting badges it isn't still fun.Today's Mobile Monday project is from a Friend of the B...

Vodigi - interactive digital signage, now with Kinect support

The rest of this week is going to be a Kinect on CodePlex week. The first is an interesting project that provides a glimpse of what we're seeing the Kinect used often with, interactive digital signage...

Bootstrapper - Using the Kinect to Recognize Tabletop Users by their Shoes

And you thought last Friday's post, Kinecting with your tongue (really), was an unusual use of the Kinect? I'm not sure if this week's tops it or not...Bootstrapper - Recognizing Tabletop Users by the...

32feet.NET, Bluetooth and .Net Gadgeteer

For our Hardware Friday we're going to mix in some Bluetooth and WPF in our .Net Gadgeteer world...Controlling a Gadgeteer device using Bluetooth Module and 32feet.NET libraryIn this post, Ill show ho...

Kinect'ing to a Rocket Launcher? Oh yeah...

I'm not sure what's funnier, this project itself or the fact that I happened to have a like rocket launcher laying around myself...In any case, this is an awesome series that walks you through a numbe...

Managing your Kinect with Rob Miles' Kinect Manager

Since we last highlighted Rob Miles' work in  the The Purple Book... "Using Kinect for Windows with XNA" post, he's been a busy guy working on another book for the Kinect. And in his spare time, he'...

Getting lost and found with the C# Maze Generator and Solver

Today's project harkens back to days when we used to love mazes... (Okay, I still do, but that's besides the point).C# Maze Generator and SolverIntroductionThis demo creates and solves mazes using the...

"Kinect Foto Shop"

Today's program (binary only, no source) is one example of one dev's fun in playing around with the Kinect, Kinect for Windows SDK and NUI's.Kinect Waving your hands in front of your face like slarti...

Making Mayhem with Volume Control

Why, hello there! We are going to pick up where we left off at the end of our Coding4Fun video. In the video we built a reaction that increments the volume level on the computer. We are going to expan...

3D Point Cloud with the Kinect

3D point clouds seem to be pretty popular with the Kinect so when I saw this article that talks about it in good depth...Kinect SDK1 - A 3D Point CloudA point cloud is a set of points in a 3D space. Y...

To Space[Apps] and beyond!

Today's Mobile Monday post is by far the most "mobile" we've ever been. Hard to get more mobile than space apps. The cool thing about these projects (I mean besides their being space apps, hard to g...

Kinecting with your tongue (really)

This inspirational (?) story was just so, well, out-there, and talk about using the Kinect in ways that I'm sure were not envisioned when first released...Video: Controlling Your Kinect By Waggling Yo...

Controlling a .NET Gadgeteer Device with your mind...

You all know my love-love relationship with mind control... well... I mean mind reading... um... (you know!) devices like the Emotive device. Well when I saw this project, one the melds a less expensi...

Home Security System Using Kinect, Azure, Windows Phone and Windows 8

Today's project I think it's only missing a kitchen sink. And while there's no download, there is a good bit of information provided to help you get started and build something similar...Home Security...

TUIO based MultiTouch Kinect (SDK V1.0) for Windows7

Today's paper and free binary download provides another example of using the Kinect as a controller for non-Kinect applications. For example using the Kinect with Microsoft Paint...MultiTouch Kinect(S...

There's an Ogre in my Metro...

I could/should have saved this project for a Metro Monday post, but, well, I couldn't wait on this any longer.This project had me at "... includes binaries of Ogre, FreeImage, Hydrax and SkyX for x64...

Putting the you in the controller with the Kinect and iController

Today's free for educational and evaluation purposes download is one that I see asked about allot, using the Kinect to execute or emulate keyboard/mouse commands.The iController ProjectIntroductionWhi...

Kinect & PAC's (Programmable Automation Controller)

Today's inspirational project shows how the Kinect and Kinect SDK is being used in some unusual ways.KINECT-PACThis project is an extension of some work I did last November that integrated gesture-bas...

Using the Windows Portable Devices (WDP) API for fun and... fun...

Today's Mobile Monday post is going to be different than most... Instead of Windows Phone 7, etc, we're going to focus on a series of posts that covers an API that many may not know about, but once yo...

Connecting to applications with the Kinect Emulator v2

Today's binary download, previous version highlighted here, Kinecting to Kodu, shows off one example of how the Kinect can be used to control existing applications, like PowerPoint the World Wide Tele...

Tyrant's aren't all bad, especially when they are micro and running on .NET Gadgeteer's

Our Hardware Friday post in this game theme week combines a couple of fun things, .Net Gadgeteer hardware and a RPG game (well the start of one at least). It also shows off a couple thing projects men...

Real-Time Motion Capture using Kinect, XNA and the DigitalRune Engine

Real-time motion capture is one of the more common requests I see for the Kinect so when I saw this...Do note that this requires a third party project, the DigitalRune Engine, but you can get a free 3...

Painting a skeleton

Today's project kind of jives with yesterday's in that it's an introduction kind of post, one that's simple and straight forward and yet does something that many people new to Kinect SDK development a...

See? Farseer is easy to see (in your next game)

The second in our game theme week is a topic that's a favorite of mine, physics (well game physics anyway). It's another tutorial that shows that adding physics to your game doesn't have to be hard an...

Kinect for Windows SDK color and depth streams example

Today's project is a very simple, straight forward and easy to understand example for capturing and displaying the image and depth streams from the Kinect. My thinking in highlighting this in the Gall...

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