Any way to physically move the Kinect camera?

Question

Really new to kinect. I am trying to read up material I find. I found technical spec and the .net API documentation, but could figure out if what I am trying to do is possible:

Can I instruct the kinect to physically move the cameras? (I want to view other people in the room for example).

Edited: I am using the MS Kinect SDK.

Thank you

Are you using the MS Kinect SDK or some third party API? – nageeb Nov 27 '11 at 09:10 — nageeb, Nov 27 '11 at 09:10

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 27 '12 at 02:45

You can use NuiCamera.ElevationAngle to set the elevation angle of kinect camera. Yea, as mentioned above answer, you can only move up and down.

This is the example in Visual C#

I create a slider to get the value. Kinect Mortor is limited to -27 to 27 degree of rotation only.

 <Slider Value = "{Binding ElevationAngle, Mode =TwoWay}" Height="171" Interval="1" IsSnapToTickEnabled="True" Margin="914,536,284,45" Maximum="27" Minimum="-27" Name="slider_tilt" Orientation="Vertical" SmallChange="1" TickPlacement="TopLeft" Width="38" />

Create a button called btnSetTilt and under the button click event, feed the value of slider to Elevation angle. That's it.

    private void btnSetTilt_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
          //Set angle to slider_tilt value
       nui.NuiCamera.ElevationAngle = (int)slider_tilt.Value; 


    }

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited May 06 '14 at 07:32

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Using OpenKinect you can control it with

public setMotorPosition(float)

With the Microsoft Kinect SDK for Windows you can use

NuiCameraSetElevation

which is limited to 1 call per second and no more than 15 calls per 20 second period.

The motor and gear are not meant for frequent use.

edited May 06 '14 at 07:32

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answered Nov 27 '11 at 09:15

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thank you. Following this question since I've gotten your attention. Is it possible to zoom the kinect camera? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8284284/how-to-zoom-kinect-camera/8284369#8284369 – vondip Nov 27 '11 at 09:19
I thought perhaps you knew of another open source solution. – vondip Nov 27 '11 at 09:24
No. iFixit has a teardown of Kinekt which should give hints about the physical capabilities. http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft-Kinect-Teardown/4066/1 – Roger Lindsjö Nov 27 '11 at 09:29

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 27 '12 at 03:44

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You can but only up and down, it wont work moving side to side. And Roger Lindsjo has the same explanation as I do. But just wanted to clarify.

edited Oct 27 '12 at 03:44

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answered Jan 13 '12 at 21:43

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Any way to physically move the Kinect camera?

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