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Why not more work with Pykinect?
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 2:30 am
by hdmathias
A search on the forum finds only 1 thread with 3 posts that mention Pykinect. Given that it seems like a natural fit, what with being written in Python and all, I'm curious why there hasn't been more discussion here.
Re: Why not more work with Pykinect?
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 2:37 am
by whoenig
I am not sure, but a few ideas:
* It seems to be Windows only
* Researchers usually use the Robot Operating System (ROS) as infrastructure
* If you want to control a Crazyflie automatically, you need to track the Crazyflie and not the Human, i.e. the Kinect SDK for gestures etc. won't be helpful
The Kinect topics I saw were mostly custom solutions based on OpenCV.
Re: Why not more work with Pykinect?
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 2:53 am
by hdmathias
I agree that it isn't the right platform for autonomous flight but it might be fun to play with gesture control of the Crazyflie. Seems like it would be a fun little project and with all of the work I recently did to get the library/examples running in Windows, it would be satisfying to use it for something.
Re: Why not more work with Pykinect?
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 6:13 am
by hdmathias
I have a simple implementation working with Pykinect. Control using gestures isn't bad in althold mode. It's not yet ready for prime time but shows promise.
Now what I'd like to do is add a display showing the horizon and roll, pitch, yaw, thrust values as in the client. I don't need a full client, just the display. Has anyone created a display-only version of the client?