Hey Joao,

Chikashi also has a mac build of [leapmotion] available here, but it seems to be using SDK 1. So at least this version allows us to use 2.3.1. That's as far as we can go on macOS unless Leap changes their stance on mac development. But I'm messing around some with the latest 5.7.2 SDK and I'm not having any trouble building/linking on both Linux and Windows. And on those platforms I'm able to connect to both the original Leap Motion Controller and the new Ultraleap hardware.

I'm not sure about the best way to consolidate everything that's been done in this area, especially since I decided to remove the FLEXT layer, which will be important for Max/MSP users. Myself, I'm only interested in building this for Pd and I want to keep things as simple as possible. And if I follow through working with SDK 5.7.2, we'll have access to the latest version of Leap software/hardware on all 3 platforms. I'm totally open to working and organizing together on this...whatever seems to be the best way. I think I'll have time to get the code up to a good stopping point over the holidays.

As for the gestures - do you mean adding a system for training/recognizing user-defined gestures beyond the existing circle/swipe/tap gestures? I'm interested in that idea for sure, but don't have the deep learning chops to pull it off yet.

On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 1:21 PM João Pais <jmmmpais@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi William,

nice that you made this also for mac. I'm thinking that since each version of the object is in a different repository (I have the windows version, you have mac, and Chikashi has linux), would it make sense to cross-reference them? I guess putting them all together might be too much.

I haven't used my leap too much, mostly because after some performances I wanted to use more complex control such as gestures. But I couldn't program anything myself, and didn't find any way of using e.g. machine learning or similar for that. Is this some kind of work you also do? Could you recommend any such libraries, even if not for Pd?

Best,

Joao
Hi all,

After years of using Chikashi Miyama's [leapmotion] object, I decided to fork his repo in order to make some changes and build against the most recently available Leap SDK for macOS (2.3.1). Information about specific changes can be found by visiting the repo: https://github.com/wbrent/leapmotion. I've also uploaded deken packages for macOS/Intel and Linux.

Note that this external is for the original Leap Motion Controller, and not the current Ultraleap Controller. I may keep working on this in order to use the latest Leap SDK (5.7.2) for Ultraleap compatibility under Linux and Windows, but there seems to be no plan for supporting that device under macOS, hence the freeze at SDK 2.3.1 for now...

I hope it's helpful to someone out there!

William

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