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Using the Kinect and XGames to teach “Control”
In my lesson today I wanted to get students to come up and learn using the white board. I wanted students to try and interact with flow charts using the Kinect SDK. In ICT we currently use a piece of … Continue reading
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Kinect Calculator–New App!
So this year I have found out that I’m going to be teaching some Math lessons in my school and I thought it would be interesting to get students up and out of their seats. I wanted to make a … Continue reading
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Lesson 6–Coding 4 Fun toolkit fix
It has come to my attention that some people have been downloading my applications and they have been having problems with the designer. A lot of people are getting the error messages appearing at the bottom of their screen to … Continue reading
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Lesson 5–Change the angle of the Kinect using the Kinect SDK
After my last couple of lessons went online, a few people contacted me and asked me about how you change the angle of the Kinect when you’re mounting it. A lot of people are different heights and if you have … Continue reading
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Lesson 4–Using Kinect to change images
In my last lesson, I showed you how you can use the Kinect SDK to update images. I showed you how you can get the text box to change based on where the position of the joint was. In this … Continue reading
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Lesson 3–Tutorial Adding Text box
In my previous lesson, I showed you how to allocate actions to your program, based on where you have put your hands on the screen. You could allocate actions to your hands being above your head etc.. In this tutorial … Continue reading
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Lesson 2 – Using Gestures with the Kinect SDK
Back in November, some of you may have found out how to make a simple application which makes sounds and that can hover over buttons (Lesson 1). I got thinking that some of you may not want to hover over … Continue reading
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Kinect + Kodu–Engaging Games!
So after playing around with some amazing applications the past week, I stumbled across a simple application which allowed you to move back and forward through slides on a PowerPoint. This is great for presentations and It allows people to … Continue reading
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Kinect E-Book
So… have you ever wanted to make Reading more interesting for Key Stage 3? Or Anyone in fact? Well now you can! I got speaking to Stuart Ball the other day and he had this amazing idea about creating a … Continue reading
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Kinect Quiz for Beta 2
About a month and a half ago, I made a Quiz to use with the Kinect which would allow you to include 10 of your own questions. All you would need to do is edit the text file which goes … Continue reading
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