Bloody stupid AWS, bloody stupid Facebook and bloody stupid me!

Well, it's been nearly 2 years. And i haven't been sitting around doing nothing, i've been starting startups and coding like crazy to get some awesome stuff launched. Unfortunately, now i've encountered an issue, where my app no longer talks to facebook, and nothing is telling me what's wrong! At this point, i'm assuming is due to an update from php 5.4 to 5.5, but i am absolutely screwing, as i can't roll back the update! Lamey lame. Anyway, rant over, kthxbai

Some Linux Please!!

Hi everyone,

I hope you enjoy some of my work, I've had about 4,000 odd views of my seemingly nonsensical ramblings, however am shocked that none of the audience are using Linux!!

Give it a go, you won't regret it!

3D Gesture Search Demo v1.1

Gesture search application, now with Mondrian background.

This version lets you select whether to search in 2D, 3D or both and also shows or hides the scores so it can be used for both testing and have a clean interface.

I'll add in some annotations so you know what's happening at each point.

Oh and please note, the frame rate and glitches are due to the screen recorder rather than the app itself :)

Gesture Search App Nearly Done!!!

Would you bloody well look at that! I've only gone and built it!

Have a butchers at the Gesture Search application, letting you search with your hands for those things you just can't quite remember the names of like...... errrr....... uuhhhhh......... coffee tables!

Obviously it needs to be made pretty, but Rome wasn't built in a day and sadly neither was this.

London 2012 Olympic Fails

A new cheeky little project for me for some London 2012 Olympic fail based misery:

http://www.youtube.com/user/London2012Fail

http://www.facebook.com/London2012Fail

https://twitter.com/#!/London2012Fail

As well as the site obviously:

http://www.london2012fail.com

Generative Creativity System Videos

At the moment this is a placeholder for future videos....

KInect fully tracked hands and head, resizing with depth

As i wanted to do, I've isolated the head and hands, tracked them quite well and put the ellipses from previous tests over the top.

The ellipses are now resizing with depth quite nicely as well.

I guess next is placing 3D tracks of the hands and then working out a good solution to save the tracks to file.

Kinect Skeleton overlayed onto the video stream

I've now tweaked some stuff to get the skeleton working with the depth reading to ensure that it maps properly on top of the person in the video, rather than the issues shown in the last video.

Hopefully next steps are removing the full skeleton, adding some hand glow and then adding the tracks to build the models.... Nice...

Arduino Children's Energy Monitor

This is an energy monitor I put together for my friend: http://elletweedy.wordpress.com/

It's designed to show energy usage in an easy and interesting way for kids.

It uses an Arduino board which measures the power used by an appliance. When the kid keeps the energy within certain boundaries they gain rewards which build up over time.

It's pretty much like sustainable energy Tamagotchi.

Resizing circles with depth of hands and head with kinect

I've got the kinect all working now, and am tracking my hands and head with some circles. And I've overlaid them on top of the raw video.

Something i noticed with the tutorials:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectSDKQuickstarts/Skeletal-Tracking-Fundamentals

Is the fact that the tracking doesn't take into account how far you are from the sensor. So i've added some code that changes the size of the circles depending on the distance.

Next i need to change the code so the circles move less when you are further away. You'll see that, at present, when you get further away, they still try to fill the screen.

Skeletal data

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/KinectSDKQuickstarts/Skeletal-Tracking-Fundamentals

Kinect API

Gesture, Thought & Memory

http://www.columbia.edu/~rmk7/PDF/GestMem.pdf

http://mcneilllab.uchicago.edu/pdfs/gesture.thought.fundamentals.pdf

Data Miming

http://www.christianholz.net/data_miming.html

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/awilson/publications/HolzCHI2011/HolzCHI2011.pdf

3D matching papers

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~funk/sbim08.pdf

https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/search-tog03.pdf

http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~misha/MyPapers/WEB3D.pdf

Princeton Shape Retrieval and Analysis Group

For describing and searching 3d shapes:

http://gfx.cs.princeton.edu/proj/shape/

Kinect Interactive Visuals

Kinect Interactive Visuals

Gesture Based Object Recognition – Kinect Data Miming

Gesture Based Object Recognition – Kinect Data Miming

Kinect MS Surface 2.0 SDK for the EVOLUCE Two

Kinect MS Surface 2.0 SDK for the EVOLUCE Two

Kinect MultiTouch Surface with Grasshopper (For Architects)

Kinect MultiTouch Surface with Grasshopper (For Architects)