Monthly Archives: December 2011

Lesson 9–Kinect Speech Recognition

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Raymond David James Chambers

So now that you have the drag and drop working, you might want to manipulate a text box to change each time you say something. For example, every time I say “apple” the text box will update to say apple. … Continue reading →

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Lesson 8–Drag and Drop with the Kinect SDK

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Raymond David James Chambers

This short lesson shows you how you can put your left hand above your head and then use your right hand to control where an image is positioned. It is a short video but should be easy to follow. It … Continue reading →

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Lesson 7–Control Your Mouse Cursor with Kinect SDK

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Raymond David James Chambers

I’m really loving the Christmas holiday season at the moment. It has gave me so much time to do things with the Kinect I never thought I could do. I remember when the Kinect SDK originally came out and I … Continue reading →

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Kinect Calculator–New App!

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Raymond David James Chambers

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

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Raymond David James Chambers

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

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Raymond David James Chambers

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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Teach Phonics using the Kinect

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Raymond David James Chambers

Hope you have all had a good Christmas and Boxing day. Looking forward to the new year? I know I am ! Can’t wait to see what this new year brings with the Kinect and the new apps coming available! … Continue reading →

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Lesson 4–Using Kinect to change images

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Raymond David James Chambers

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

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Raymond David James Chambers

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

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Raymond David James Chambers

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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