Kinect on APF - Revision history

AndersR at 08:22, 8 June 2011

2011-06-08T08:22:43Z

WikiSysop: /* Transfering it to the device and testing it */

2011-06-06T15:04:47Z

‎Transfering it to the device and testing it

FabienM: /* Installing required libusb component to rootfs image */

2011-05-19T11:56:04Z

‎Installing required libusb component to rootfs image

AndersR: /* Flash the rootfs image to the board */

2011-05-19T10:19:48Z

‎Flash the rootfs image to the board

AndersR: /* Installing required libusb component to rootfs image */

2011-05-19T10:04:44Z

‎Installing required libusb component to rootfs image

AndersR at 09:59, 19 May 2011

2011-05-19T09:59:39Z

AndersR at 09:09, 19 May 2011

2011-05-19T09:09:16Z

AndersR: New page: == Introduction == {{Under_Construction}} This article will show you how to get the Kinect driver, released by the project [http://www.openkinect.org OpenKinect], to run on the APF51 boa...

2011-05-18T16:04:01Z

New page: == Introduction == {{Under_Construction}} This article will show you how to get the Kinect driver, released by the project [http://www.openkinect.org OpenKinect], to run on the APF51 boa...

New page

== Introduction ==

{{Under_Construction}}

This article will show you how to get the Kinect driver, released by the project [http://www.openkinect.org OpenKinect], to run on the APF51 board. The end goal of this page will be a system where the Kinect dumps RGB and depth images to a folder on the device. The images will be in ppm and pgm format and can be viewed on a host PC in GIMP.

I'm pretty new to the Armadeus project association, so if I'm repeating information listed elsewhere or not following the general layout, I apologize on beforehand.

== Installing required components ==

The driver requires the libusb component to be installed on the APF51, luckily this component doesn't need to be cross-compiled but can be installed together with the Linux file system on the board.

On your host-pc go to

== Syntax for editing ==

Command on APF
<pre class="apf">
# modprobe mx27_camera
</pre>

Command on host
<pre class="host">
sudo apt-get install gcj-jdk
</pre>

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 After minimum 10-20s stop the application with Ctrl + C.
-Now folder testkinect contains accelerometer dumps, rgb images (ppm files) and depth images (pgm files). The PPM files can be viewed in GIMP, the PGM files are 11 bit so GIMP is complaining about them I viewed them in matlab but will write a solution to gimp soon.
+Now folder testkinect contains accelerometer dumps (*.dump), rgb images (*.ppm) and depth images (*.pgm). Both RGB and depth images can be viewed in default image viewer on ubuntu.
 [[Category:UserInput]]
 [[Category:USB]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 15:04, 6 June 2011
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	Now folder testkinect contains accelerometer dumps, rgb images (ppm files) and depth images (pgm files). The PPM files can be viewed in GIMP, the PGM files are 11 bit so GIMP is complaining about them I viewed them in matlab but will write a solution to gimp soon.		Now folder testkinect contains accelerometer dumps, rgb images (ppm files) and depth images (pgm files). The PPM files can be viewed in GIMP, the PGM files are 11 bit so GIMP is complaining about them I viewed them in matlab but will write a solution to gimp soon.
		+
		+	[[Category:UserInput]]
		+	[[Category:USB]]

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 </pre>
-Select libusb under
+Select libusb
-Package selection for target -> libraries -> hardware handling -libusb
+<pre class="config">
 You don't need to select libusb-compat.
 Exit the menuconfig and save the changes

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 <pre class="apf">
   # BIOS>
 </pre>
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   # boot
 </pre>
 == Compiling the kinect driver ==

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 Package selection for target -> libraries -> hardware handling -libusb
 You don't need to select libusb-compat.
 Exit the menuconfig and save the changes

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 Compile the record application using the library file and header file compiled
 <pre class="host">
-/armadeus/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-gcc -o record -I ~/armadeus_openkinect/libfreenect/include/  -L ~/libfreenect/build/lib -l freenect record.c
+/armadeus/buildroot/output/build/staging_dir/usr/bin/arm-linux-gcc -o record -I ~/libfreenect/include/  -L ~/libfreenect/build/lib -l freenect record.c
 </pre>
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 == Transfering it to the device and testing it ==
-Command on APF
+Create a folder to store the images in
 <pre class="apf">
-  # modprobe mx27_camera
+  # cd /tmp
 </pre>
-Command on host
+Run record app and store the images in testkinect
-<pre class="host">
+<pre class="apf">
-  sudo apt-get install gcj-jdk
+  # record testkinect
 </pre>

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-== Installing required components ==
+== Installing required libusb component to rootfs image ==
 The driver requires the libusb component to be installed on the APF51, luckily this component doesn't need to be cross-compiled but can be installed together with the Linux file system on the board.
-On your host-pc go to
+On your host-pc go to the armadeus toolchains buildroot