Contents tagged with kinect

• Dec 28 2011

  Blob Storage of Kinectonitor Images

  The Kinectonitor has received a lot of commentary and I’ve received some great ideas and suggestions on how it could be improved. There are a few architectural aspects about it that gave me some heartburn. One of those areas is in that, I failed to make use of any of Azure’s storage functionality to store the images. This post sums up how Blob Storage was added to the Kinectonitor’s architecture so that images could be stored in the cloud, not on the individual observer site’s web servers.

• Dec 12 2011

  The Kinectonitor

  Suppose you had a some scary-looking hoodlum walking around your house when you were out? You’d want to know about it, wouldn’t you? Take one Kinect, mix in a little Windows Azure Service Bus, sprinkle in some SignalR, and mix it all together with some elbow grease, and you could watch in near-real-time as sinewy folks romp through your living room. Here’s how.

• Dec 12 2011

  Netduino Controlled by Kinect

  Update: I've uploaded the code I wrote for this demonstration project to GitHub into my KinectControlledNetduino public repository. I also forgot to mention that the Kinect code makes use of the excellent gesturing engine created by David Catuhe, which you can read about on his blog or download from CodePlex.