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Leap Motion in Gentoo Linux 28 Mar 2013 | 12:14 pm
Great news for those of you with Leap Motion developer kits, today's 0.7.6 release of the SDK adds linux support. Their package targets ubuntu specifically but I was able to get it working on a gentoo...
TI MSP430 Launchpad in gentoo linux 4 Jan 2013 | 05:16 pm
Getting started with the MSP430 launchpad in gentoo is pretty straightforward, once you've dug through some documentation. Here's some instructions that should get you up and running. emerge crossdev...
Wiimote+nunchuk web surfing in linux 31 Dec 2012 | 02:35 pm
At this point, messing around with the wiimote probably seems dated, but hey, I have one lying around with a motionplus and nunchuk. The final outcome of this post if you follow it- you'll be able to ...
Fat Secret calorie counter access with python 16 Jun 2012 | 09:58 am
This post complements my earlier discussion of the Withings scale API here: http://www.keyboardmods.com/2012/05/withings-wifi-scale-python-dashboard.html I've written a convenience library in python t...
Withings wifi scale python dashboard with fatsecret 21 May 2012 | 07:28 pm
The Withings wifi scale is a great bit of hardware, much more visually appealing than my handmade equivalent and wifi makes it standalone, also a big advantage over my bluetooth scale. I've been using...
Gymnastics tap swing trainer 12 Jan 2012 | 11:17 am
Timing is one of the things I've found most difficult to pick up while learning basic gymnastics. This is especially true when it comes to high bar/strap bar giants and tap swings. If I just blindly p...
Kinect speech recognition in linux 18 Oct 2011 | 06:56 am
Audio support is now part of libfreenect. Additionally it is now possible to load the microsoft SDK version of the audio firmware from linux courtesy of a utility called kinect_upload_fw written by An...
Kinect audio reverse engineering 25 Feb 2011 | 07:56 am
I did some work on getting the kinect audio hardware to work as part of openkinect/libfreenect a while back. Here's some quick notes on what I've figured out and how: Once the audio firmware has been ...
HOWTO: use the kinect as a mouse in linux 17 Dec 2010 | 11:10 pm
In an earlier post I explained how to get PrimeSense's NITE up and running and how to use the samples they provided. Now some people might be thinking "cool, but how can I use this?" I thought using N...
HOWTO: Kinect + OpenNI/NITE skeleton tracking and gesture recognition in gentoo 11 Dec 2010 | 02:54 pm
Thanks to the folks at PrimeSense libraries are now available for skeleton tracking and gesture recognition. UPDATE: Check here if you've gotten NITE working and want to try using the kinect as a Mino...
