nect

Depth camera library for kinect and asus xtion

Install

• Install libusb from http://www.libusb.org/
• Install libfreenect from https://github.com/Opennect/libfreenect

Then:

$ git clone git://github.com/Bodhi5/nect.git

Test

Plug your nect and do:

$ cd node-nect
$ npm test

Use

Create a context

var nect = require('nect');
 
var context = nect();

Accepts options like this:

var nect = require('nect');
 
var options = {
  device: 2
};
 
var context = nect(options);

Options:

• device: integer for device number. Default is 0

Resuming / pausing

nect is paused by default, to start pumping video or depth you need to resume it like this:

context.resume();

You can also pause it like this:

context.pause();

LED

var nect = require('nect');
 
var context = nect();
context.led("red");

Accepts these strings as sole argument:

• "off"
• "green"
• "red"
• "yellow"
• "blink green"
• "blink red yellow"

Video

Enable video:

context.start('video');

Listen for video frames:

context.on('video', function(buf) {
  // buf is RGB-encoded, 640 x 480
});

Depth

Enable depth:

context.start('depth');

Listen for depth frames:

context.on('video', function(buf) {
  // each depth pixel in buf has 2 bytes, 640 x 480, 11 bit resolution
});

Credits

Based on Pedro Teixeira kinect library

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Bodhi5 [e-mail]

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