Kinect - an advanced sensor for robots

Such a wonderful device as Kinect could not help but attract the attention of various homemade products. And a week after the start of sales, the controller protocol was hacked .

The openkinect.org site is already running and now Kinect can be used for various installations or as an advanced robot sensor.



A library has already been created for working with Kinect under Processing and a plugin for openFrameworks - ofxKinect , which works in conjunction with OpenCV.



It can already be seen on iRobot and PR2 .



Kinect + ROS:




What can I say - the sensor is very, very interesting!

Unfortunately, the price of this device is not very happy. In the United States, it sells for $ 149 (it is mentioned that Microsoft sells it at a loss-making price, hoping to get the money back on software), in Europe it costs 149 Euros, and in Russia it costs about 8,000 rubles.

References

www.xbox.com/en-US/kinect
http://openkinect.org
Kinect - OpenSource
Kinect - One Week Later
Kinect drivers for ROS coming together