I am wondering if anyone is working on making a library to connect Kinect with Pure Data.

I know there is already a Proccessing library out - so I imagine one could connect the kinect to Proccessing and then connect Proccessing to PD through OSC

Problem is that I have Windows 7 and the Proccessing library for W7 isnt out yet.

If anyone is experimenting with this and has gotten somwhere I would be interested in hearing about it.

Best regards

I have spent now two evenings trying to find decent instructions on how to install externals on PD extended with no luck

In some places it says that I only need to put the external lib into a folder Programfiles/commonfiles/pd

I am using windows 7

In other places it says I need to add a path and startup - which I have tried with no luck

I havent found a single instruction that isnt cryptic (for a noob) to say the least, and assumes that I should know way more than is reasonable if PD is supposed to be attractive to other than programmers

I am trying to install gridflow and wiimote lib

Could someone please explain this to me like I am a 5 year old noob

All the best

Hi

I am trying to get PD to use this this external http://youngmusic.org/wiki/index.php/Wiilib

This is the first time I have tried to load an external so If I am doing something silly, then go easy on me.

I am using windows 7 on an Acer Aspire 5740G

I have made a folder called wiilib in; C:Program Files/pd/extra/wiilib

-where I put all the files downloaded from the above mentioned site

Then I go to File - Startup and press new, write wiilib, press "ok" then "apply" then "ok" to close the startup window

Then I go to File - Path and press "new" write in C:Program Files/pd/extra/wiilib

and again; press "ok" then "apply" then "ok" to close the window

Then I close the PD program and double clik it again, and the Program loads up all the normal externals (this is PD extended btw) but at the bottom it says:

wiilib: can't load library

And the patch that comes with this external, has some objects not working (red-lined)

I have also tried the same with the gridflow-9.8 library, with the same result

I have been trying to get this to work for two days and no luck - from the instructions I have found on the web, I would think I was doing this right, but in my opinion the instructions I have found are really vague on this subject (at least for beginners)

Some help would be much appriciated

Best regards. Eds

Hy

I am trying out using a webcam for position tracking in PD but the latency is way to much for the output value to be usable for controlling sound.

I am using an TRUST Webcam WB-3500T

and I have installed the only driver I can find for it.

What would be a good webcam for getting low latency tracking in PD?

Best regards

Hi

I am using a "6 degree of freedom" motion sensor...

http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9431

... and connecting it through an arduino mega that than uses the Pduino mega...

http://www.pjrc.com/tmp/firmata/readme.html

...to interface with Pure data.

I am wondering if anyone knows of any pathces to correctly read 6dof sensors (3 vector accellerometer and 3 vector gyroscope)

I found this tutorial on the maths of how to do this but since I am new to Pure data (and my math skills are not my best features I am wondering if anybody has already been trying something similar and might give me a point in the right direction.

All the best.

Hi Davebv

Is the MusicController program available for Windows?

I am using Windows 7

regards

Ok

I didnt notice that this lib (wiilib) is only for linux

But still the exactly same thing happens with Gridflow lib - and I am sure I downloaded the windows version

So if anyone can explain what I am doing wrong, that would make me very happy

Thanks

I got myself the PS3 eye, seems to be both the best and most cost effective choice

Thanks guys

I have seen some youtube videos of people using cameras such as this one:

and also the Reactable.

Is it more common for people to just use video cameras for these things?

best regards, and thanks again for the assistance

Here is what you need

http://www.pjrc.com/tmp/firmata/readme.html

there is a sip file there you can download with a ready made patch for 16 analog outputs from the arduino mega

Yeah it is quite alot of math. I didnt expect you to to do it for me More wondering if anyone had done something similar before.

when you say "get help on [+ ] ...) is that an url or are you talking about looking into the explination for the plus object within PD?

This is a tutorial for a 5DOF sensor though. I guess one could extend it to a 6DOF sensor

Thanks. I meant to put a link, but I must have forgot

http://www.instructables.com/id/Accelerometer-Gyro-Tutorial/