wraggster
September 16th, 2012, 19:51
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The builds using a Kinect as a 3D scanner just keep getting better and better. A team of researchers from the University of Bristol have portablized the Kinect (http://big.cs.bris.ac.uk/projects/mobile-kinect) by adding a battery, single board Linux computer, and a WiFi adapter. With their Mobile Kinect project, it’s now a snap to automatically map an environment without lugging a laptop around, or just giving your next mobile robot an awesome vision system.
By making the Kinect portable, [Mike] et al made the Microsoft’s 3D imaging device much more capable than its present task of computing the volumetric space of the inside of a cabinet. The Reconstructme project (http://hackaday.com/2012/03/03/very-easy-3d-scanning-software-with-reconstructme/) allows the Kinect to be used as a hand-held 3D scanner and Kintinuous (http://hackaday.com/2012/06/01/3d-mapping-of-huge-areas-with-a-kinect/) can be used to create a 3D model of entire houses, buildings, or caves.
There’s a lot that can be done with a portabalized, WiFi’d Kinect, and hopefully a few builds replicating the team’s work (except for replacing the Gumstix board with a Raspi) will be showing up on HaD shortly.
http://hackaday.com/2012/09/16/a-portable-wifi-enabled-kinect/
The builds using a Kinect as a 3D scanner just keep getting better and better. A team of researchers from the University of Bristol have portablized the Kinect (http://big.cs.bris.ac.uk/projects/mobile-kinect) by adding a battery, single board Linux computer, and a WiFi adapter. With their Mobile Kinect project, it’s now a snap to automatically map an environment without lugging a laptop around, or just giving your next mobile robot an awesome vision system.
By making the Kinect portable, [Mike] et al made the Microsoft’s 3D imaging device much more capable than its present task of computing the volumetric space of the inside of a cabinet. The Reconstructme project (http://hackaday.com/2012/03/03/very-easy-3d-scanning-software-with-reconstructme/) allows the Kinect to be used as a hand-held 3D scanner and Kintinuous (http://hackaday.com/2012/06/01/3d-mapping-of-huge-areas-with-a-kinect/) can be used to create a 3D model of entire houses, buildings, or caves.
There’s a lot that can be done with a portabalized, WiFi’d Kinect, and hopefully a few builds replicating the team’s work (except for replacing the Gumstix board with a Raspi) will be showing up on HaD shortly.
http://hackaday.com/2012/09/16/a-portable-wifi-enabled-kinect/