[ros-users] FYI Kinect hacked driver for linux

Kurt Konolige konolige at willowgarage.com
Thu Nov 11 17:40:36 UTC 2010


We'll probably do a prelim ROS driver as soon as we get a Kinect.

Cheers --Kurt

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Stefan Kohlbrecher
<stefan.kohlbrecher at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at publishing a PointCloud2. Have a lot of other stuff to
> do though, so I might not be able to finish that node in the next
> days. It's also very basic and probably a bit ugly, because I haven't
> done much ROS coding outside of tutorials and testing of
> orocos_toolchain_ros yet ;)
>
> 2010/11/11 Ivan Dryanovski <ivan.dryanovski at gmail.com>:
>> Is anyone working on a ROS wrapper/driver for this? I have a Kinect
>> and I was thinking about starting to write one
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Stefan Kohlbrecher
>> <stefan.kohlbrecher at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Very impressive sensor, especially considering the price.
>>> Sample image I took today:
>>> http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/5162/kinectscreenshot.png
>>>
>>> Minimum range is about 0.5m, from 1 to 4 meters+ one gets very dense
>>> depth information.
>>>
>>> 2010/11/11 John Browning <john_jsb at hotmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> Would be a great addition for a cheap ranging sensor
>>>>
>>>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20022467-52.html
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