freenect libs
Where is the resource?
Here :P : https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect
To make sure you were not installing the old libfreenect stuff shipped with ubuntu.
Try to remove those old packages if you have already.
apt-get remove freenect python-freenect libfreenect-demos
Before you are going to build the libfreenect, you will want this:
sudo apt-get install cython python-dev python-numpy freeglut3-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libxmu-dev libxi-dev -y
First you need to download the libfreenect source codes from here.
git clone https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect cd libfreenectmkdir buildcd buildsudo cmake ..sudo make -j4sudo make install sudo ldconfig
And now you can try plug in the kinect.
you will see it is detected by the computer:
you will see many tools which are compiled at once here.
And Try this, see the depth if it works!!!!
It works!
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Python scripts
Now you may want to have fun with those python scripts!
For those people who do not want to compile anything in their ubuntu 14.04
apt-get install python-opencv python-pygame python-xlib
F.Y.I. I have installed ‘opencv-2.4.11‘ already.
Then, hook some cool stuff now.
** Do not forget to use
sudo
before any command related to kinect. Application need resource.
py_kinect makes you feel so easy to have fun with kinect.
the source link is
https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect/tree/master/wrappers/python/
I feel it‘s bit slow on ubuntu 14.04. I doute it has something to do with the ‘libusb‘. According to the docs here https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect , we need the libusb >= 1.0.18 , but here I used libusb 1.0.0
And the package we see is:
$ apt-cache show libusb-1.0-0-dev Package: libusb-1.0-0-dev Priority: optional Section: libdevel Installed-Size: 281 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]> Original-Maintainer: Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> Architecture: amd64 Source: libusbx Version: 2:1.0.17-1ubuntu2 Depends: libusb-1.0-0 (= 2:1.0.17-1ubuntu2) Recommends: libusb-1.0-doc Filename: pool/main/libu/libusbx/libusb-1.0-0-dev_1.0.17-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 54682 MD5sum: 2151c234e5b53391caab9b07b4b07fb0 SHA1: 20bece6578d0453bf57dc2b8f61eb9aa058fe474 SHA256: 5ea52a92904bad5c19f671626d8d52ec6ea8c5eec4d6c6606facb32860db46b7 Description-en: userspace USB programming library development files Library for programming USB applications without the knowledge of Linux kernel internals. . This package contains what you need for compiling sources that use this library in your own code. Description-md5: 07c28a16589d7bc7f4eda04968bb1f5a Multi-Arch: same Homepage: http://www.linux-usb.org/ Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Origin: Ubuntu Supported: 9m
The package is maintained by a guy. As we can see,
libusb-1.0-0-dev_1.0.17
But it still works. I have already packed a new deb for this situation.
Here the download link:
libusb-1.0.19: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1gdCMrXx
DON‘T FORGET TO REBUILD ‘libfreenect‘ IF YOU UPGRADE YOUR LIB ‘libusb‘.
Please feel free to leave your comments here.
Happy hacking!