Sunday, January 16, 2011

Scratch and the Kinect

Wow. Stephen Howel a computer science lecturer in Ireland has developed a program which uses the open source drivers that enables the Kinect to be used on a computer to transfer the data from the drivers to Scratch. This has enabled an even larger opportunity for people who use Scratch and even those who use BYOB. The program OpenNI2Scratch can be downloaded on Howels site here.

This video was made by Howel and it introduces the new features which are now available to those who use Scratch. This is truly some great stuff. Now only if I had a Kinect.
http://player.vimeo.com/video/18562642

Skeleton view in Scratch
A project in Scratch which shows all the movable joints which are avaliable at the moment.

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