Hacking the Kinect with Open Frameworks Workshop ( San Francisco, December 4th )

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#1

Hello all !

I will be teaching a 4 part workshop in San Francisco starting on December 4th. ( http://www.gaffta.org/2012/07/24/hacking-the-kinect-with-openframeworks/ ) Below is a general overview of what will be covered in class :

This workshop will start with an introduction to Open Frameworks as a whole and will then focus on using the popularly hackable kinect device.

Day 1 : openFrameworks 101
+Lecture: Community Showcase, Out of Box capabilities, Core Examples + Addons
+Lab: Coordinate Spaces, Pixel Manipulation, Implementing community addons, Particles + Forces

Day 2 : Introduction to the Kinect
+Lecture: How a Kinect works
+Workshop and Examples: Libfreenect + OpenCV blob tracking and using kinect data to make art

Day 3 : A deeper dive into oF
+Lecture: Basics of 3D movement, oF Community
+Lab: Cameras + 3D Space, Point Clouds, OpenNI + NITE Skeleton Tracking

Day 4 : Connecting with oF
+Lab: Networking Basics, connecting to an instrument with OSC and Ableton Live, connecting to another app with local sockets, sharing your work with GitHub

#2

This sounds great! Any chance you might do this again in the future?
Cheers!
-Joe

#3

It was a pretty great workshop! While no substitute for Ben in person, he did post the projects to GitHub and broadcast via Hangouts, see below!





#4

Cant get any of these to open Ben as great as they look. The files on the github won’t run. I tried solving it but it can’t recognize ofxUISlider or something of the sort. Thats when I tried copying and pasting your code into a new project I made to get it to run. When I initially try to run it moving your github file into my OF/addons/example it won’t run due to a scheme/SDK problem. The openNI one won’t run because I think its missing a main.h and ofApp.cpp file.