<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">cool …<div><br></div><div>Here is my libfreenect driver: <a href="https://github.com/walchko/kinect">https://github.com/walchko/kinect</a></div><div><br></div><div>I forked the original ros driver stack, made it more compatible with the current openni driver, and added some other stuff. Feel free to take whatever you feel is useful.</div><div><br></div><div>I am currently playing around with the raspberry pi (ARM) and want to eventually hook the kinect up to it. Having trouble getting ros setup right now on ARM.</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 16, 2012, at 6:52 PM, Piyush <<a href="mailto:piyushk@gmail.com">piyushk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hey folks,<br><br>The openni driver for the kinect has had some stability issues over<br>the last 6 months. This is now documented through a few threads on<br><a href="http://answers.ros.org">answers.ros.org</a> and a few bug tickets. I believe some people can still<br>run the driver successfully, whereas some cannot (including myself).<br>All my machines are setup similarly, and at this time I cannot get the<br>OpenNI to work on any of them.<br><br>I have spent a bit of time in the last couple of days throwing<br>together a libfreenect based substitute. The main goal while writing<br>this driver was to get the driver to have the same API as the openni<br>one, allowing transitioning between the 2 drivers with minimum<br>modifications. For this reason, I've used the current openni driver as<br>a base rather than the now deprecated kinect_camera stack. The driver<br>can be found here:<br><a href="https://github.com/piyushk/freenect-ros-pkg">https://github.com/piyushk/freenect-ros-pkg</a><br>https://raw.github.com/piyushk/freenect-ros-pkg/master/rosinstall/freenect.rosinstall<br><br>The driver works but is quite rough (needs code cleanup and thread<br>safety), and a registration issue needs to be solved:<br>https://github.com/piyushk/freenect-ros-pkg/issues/<br><br>Is anybody interested in helping me test/maintain/develop this driver<br>(I can only test it on 12.04/Fuerte)? I could use a bit of information<br>from someone with a working openni driver to solve the registration<br>issue above.<br><br>If you want to test the driver above, you need to take the following steps:<br>1) The rosdeps are currently being pushed, so hand install these<br>packages if rosdep udpate does not catch them (libxmu-dev libxi-dev)<br>2) Blacklist gspac-kinect module if you have not done so already<br> - Temporarily: sudo modprobe -r gspca_kinect<br> - Permanently: sudo echo "blacklist gspca_kinect" >><br>/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf<br><br>Thanks!<br>Piyush<br>_______________________________________________<br>ros-users mailing list<br>ros-users@code.ros.org<br>https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>