Tool to control kinect motor

[SyRenity]

Hi.

I wonder if there a tool available to re-orient Kinect?

Currently I had to move it manually which can't be good for the gears
inside. So I've looked for tool to do it but for no avail so far.

Any idea?

Thanks.

[Marcos Slomp]

Wooow!

DON'T force the tilt manually!

In the long run this will probably permanently damage your Kinect!

I don't know if any tool specific for this task already exists.

However, it should be straight-forward to implement some sort of daemon/service to do so.

With libfreenect it is really trivial: all you need is 'freenect_set_tilt_degs()'.

The following functions may also be useful depending on how clever you want this daemon/service to be:

'freenect_update_tilt_state()', 'freenect_get_tilt_state()', 'freenect_get_tilt_degs()'.

[SyRenity]

> Wooow!
> DON'T force the tilt manually!
> In the long run this will probably permanently damage your Kinect!

I guessed as much - probably even in short run, guessing from the
plastic wheels Kinect has:
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft-Kinect-Teardown/4066/1

> With libfreenect it is really trivial: all you need is
> 'freenect_set_tilt_degs()'.
> The following functions may also be useful depending on how clever you want
> this daemon/service to be:
> 'freenect_update_tilt_state()', 'freenect_get_tilt_state()',
> 'freenect_get_tilt_degs()'.

Can I run libfreenect together with OpenNI driver?

Thanks.

[Rob Lockhart]

hi there,

finally got my kinect sensor yesterday & managed to get it hooked up & running on both W7 & Ubuntu 10.10.

ya just gotta keep hacking away.

On W7: FAAST combines libfreenect & OpenNI :  http://people.ict.usc.edu/~suma/faast/

On Ubuntu: RGBDemo combines libfreenect & OpenCV: http://nicolas.burrus.name/index.php/Research/KinectRgbDemoV3

R

[nomad]

hi,
under linux (Ubuntu) it's gives ->glview on the console "w" turns
kinect up, "s" neutral, "x" down
dont turns the kinect manually
regards steven