I've been looking left and right on a way to connect the Kinect on the yun and I can't find libraries. Is it even possible or not ???
Thank you guys
So I guess this is not something that would be fesable?
These pages seem to indicate that the Yun's 400 Mhz MIPS processor may not be fast enough for libfreenect and OpenCV, but I don't know for sure. Perhaps the upcoming Arduino TRE may be more up to the task; its processor is the same as a BeagleBone Black.
Requirements for Kinect programming - Stack Overflow (see bottom, reply by Deniz Beker)
http://neon-society-electronics.com/?p=62
As a fyi...
This team wrote a book about Arduino & Kinect. Kinect-Controlled Delta Robot - combining Arduino with Processing language/environment (it seems another faster computer does the computational work that is connected to the Kinect):
- their early work: Kinect-Controlled Delta Robot (WIP) on Vimeo
- their final result: http://www.motivecolloquies.com
- they produced this book about Arduino & Kinect: Arduino and Kinect Projects: Design, Build, Blow Their Minds | SpringerLink
OpenKinect and libfreenect - http://openkinect.org
KinectHacks - http://www.kinecthacks.com
... if you Internet search for Processing and Kinect you'll find a lot too.
Hello,
i think that you could do that, when you put a lot of effort in it. But you will not get any performance that could enable any kind of awesome project, because the processing time will be light years away from real-time computing. But I think you could use the arduino yun to enable the kinect to talk via wifi to another system, so you could outsource the processing power, but i did not know any kind of library that could do that in connection with a kinect for you.
Langhalsdino