Project Description
This project entails making the kinect sdk work with the multi-point mouse sdk and mouse mischief and other multimouse applicartions (its really a multimouse implementation of kinect mouse). Allowing the use of a kinect as multiple mice. (4 - 6 people per kinect
* number of people in classroom).
This project is for an educational classroom/non-profit and full source disclosure setting until status changed on dsf runtime being redistributable.
The kinect needs to be used for more then just gaming right? Well i have started a project that allows people to use the multi-point sdk with the kinect sdk and mouse mischief. Please read the kinect nui api forums for updates on code changes until this site
is fully setup.
Note: As the project gets towards completion i will distribute builds of the exe files for people to download.
This project is designed for the microsoft kinect for sdk v1/multi-point sdk/mouse mischief powerpoint for windows. Please download them before proceeding to help with the project as in the future or now you would need them to see if the code is working.
Additional information on starting a new project is available here:
Project Startup Guide.
Current problems to get this into a working setup program exe to distribute are:
1. Identifying users with current code.
2. Trying to work out silent install options for the kinect runtime.
3. Make powerpoint add-on to work with mouse mischief.
4. Get working with multipoint (should do this even if i dont code directly into multipoint as long as kinectmultipoint program from this project is running in the background)
I got permission to use the kinect mouse code on codeplex for my modification so i will modify it to get it working to how i want it to work.
After its finished i will finish the sample program so people can try out the full project instead of just the emulator.
To donate to this project/future projects anything wheter from $1 to anything you want it would be appreciated and you never know I might just appear in your project asking to help every project(okay maybe not every project but if i receive a donation
Im more likely to be encouraged to start more projects):
I love xna projects so if someone needs help on one please email me.
The emulator code is dsf(device simulation framework) from microsofts ddk(driver development kit) so you need to ask permission before including inside a commerical project and I highly recommend if you do get permission that you donate a fair amount above
if it involves a mouse.
You can also click the ads on the right side and occasionally sign up for a product so that you dont have to donate but want to do me a favor. But I prefer donations over clicking the ads so if you even give me a paypal $1 that would help me
invest time into some more devices to be emulated with this project.\
Update: Im thinking about updating the emulator to also do
http://smarttech.com 's smartboard for educational and governemnt entities that use this board but will come out with a full stable release for mouse emulator first with an executable. Please donate something above and i will try to implement your
feature (time pending but easier if you give me the formulas i need to use to implement it or have sample code but wish me to implement inside the kinect multipoint project).