On 15 March 2013 14:46, Julian Brooks <jbeezez@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Max & Matthias,

Thanks for your suggestions.

Guess I need to keep thinking/digging. I had spotted the Asus but have to presume it will be the same with sunlight as the kinect. Hmmm. The kinect is appealing as my friend already has one but from my reading around it's a way of working properly on the RPi, getting closer yes but still not there.

I have a memory that somewhere in the archives Hans mentions webcams and light filters to make them u.v., might be an option, and importantly, easy to do. Will keep updating.

Best wishes,

Julian
On 15 March 2013 06:55, Matthias Kronlachner <m.kronlachner@gmail.com> wrote:
hi!

i think openni should be available for the rpi.
and with the asus xtion i read somewhere its's working.
i don't know about the kinect openni driver for rpi.

without gem there is no ready to use solution for pd yet.
but you could build your own openni external, activate the depth- and usergenerator and get the center of mass of detected users.
this would not be too complicated, and everything you need can be found in pix_openni.

i'm not sure about cpu load, this could be quite intensive for a rpi.

but maybe there is already a standalone application doing exactly this thing and sending osc?

matthias

On 3/14/13 6:18 PM, Julian Brooks wrote:
Hi again,

So after some more research I've come to the conclusion that the ultrasonics aren't going to do what I would like - not a wide enough beam and unnecessary accuracy.

Perhaps if I say what I would like 'something' to do, someone may say "oh, you want one, two, n of these".

I have a digital wind chime thingy that now works ok on the RPi. What I would like is to be able to put it outdoors with something that will see when large objects, like people, are coming towards and moving away from it and then I can make use of that data to send force in pmpd to the chimes and then the chimes can klang into each other.

Been looking at the kinects but it seems I'll need GEM to be able to explore Matthias's very excellent looking freenect lib which is a no-no on the RPi currently.

My friend and I have rounded up a nice solar panel, we've got some old broken soundstick speakers that we've hacked into and a weather-proof box plus a pole to hang it all on. Should be a nice little project when it's done but a we're bit stuck on this problem at the moment...

Any suggestions people?

Cheers,

Julian
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