I recently attended a Robotics event at BotNDolly. The founder showed me some really cool stuff. BotNDolly’s technology gives filmmakers and artists the power of robotic motion control without the complexity. A Maya-based workflow makes it easy to animate the physical world, and a suite of “BD” tools plug into the workflow of a modern film set. Record the first take of a shoot and then use a variety of sensors to track the camera in a 3 dimensional space. The resulting x, y, z space can then be brought into Maya and refined. Robots are not just the stars of film – they now do the filming too.
At that same event there was a panel discussion. If you ask a panel of robot experts what technology greatly helped the field of robotics, Kinect may very well be brought up by more than just one pantelist (at least that is what I witnessed). Developers get all the crazy math done for them by the device, no need to do weird 3-dimensional trigonometric math with velocities and angles so that you can figure out the motion of a body. Kinect delivers that to you on a silver platter.
So I am therefore hosting a robotics event in San Francisco on 8/1. I’ve got a line up of 5 amazing speakers, including some stuff with the Kinect team at MS.
| Only a few seats remain for Democratizing Robotics - Build your own virtual agent | http://www.meetup.com/software/events/129686562/ |
I want to do some type of Kinect demo with the cloud. Maybe I’ll write, “Who the $@#!$ is eating my Tomatoes App,” that uses infrared to spy on my back garden to see who is eating my ripening tomatoes. The app will take a photo every so many seconds and then I’ll create a time lapsed video. I’ll automatically upload the images to the cloud at night. Some may infrared because I’m also worried about Deer, Racoons, Skunks, and more. The cloud will track and store the photos and hopefully maintain a time lapsed video of them that I can get a link to from an email.
So I laid out some ground work
The links below are to samples that demonstrate a feature. Notice that the language and framework support is spelled out, as of 7/19/2013. This is the starting point for the aspiring Kinect developer. I was inspired by the Kinect at one point, using it as a baby monitor. Well, now I need a garden monitor.
| My Original Post | http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/kinect/Baby-NUI-Using-the-Kinect-as-a-Baby-Monitor |
I wanted to chart out the learning path I’m looking at for Kinect. This seems like a great place.
