200227.3 // Mini Solenoid Mockup

Hardware

sculpture blueprint
  • Solenoid gets really hot quickly, duration between clicks to be increased to prevent overheating

 

Software

Loaned out the kinect to test the depth sensor.

sample base code

Kinect outputs a double image as seen on the right. This is because there is a  physical offset between the IR camera and the projector.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/74ff175a-291f-445d-ab55-09d2af7cfd4c/why-did-my-kinect-sensor-show-such-a-double-image?forum=kinectsdk

Thankfully, this isn’t an issue as all we need is the depth data and not precise location information.

 

Next, we tried to colour code objects based on how far they are from the kinect.

weird glitch

The sample code we found online did not include the function to purely draw the raw depth distance data.

Look for corey for some help and…

raw depth data

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Lung Nok Wan

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