Free and open source resources

You will find some open source Kinect development resources and software in this section. They are both useful for learning Kinect programming in advance and making use of some valuable free resources in your own applications.

• OpenKinect: This can be called the wiki of the OpenKinect/libfreenect project and can be found at http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page

• DevelopKinect: This is a community for Kinect depth sensor development and programming, and can be found at http://developkinect.com/

• FAAST: This is a middleware used to facilitate the integration of full-body control using skeleton tracking, and can be found at http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/faast/

• Coding4Fun Kinect Toolkit: This is the utilitiy for Kinect development using C#, and can be found at http://c4fkinect.codeplex.com/

• AS3Kinect: This allows us to use Kinect functionalities in Adobe Flash and can be found at http://www.as3nui.com/air-kinect/

• TUIOKinect: This can be used to translate Kinect hand data into multitouch cursors using the TUIO protocol, and can be found at https://code.google.com/p/tuiokinect

• OSCeleton: This is used to send skeleton data in OSC format and can be found at https://github.com/Sensebloom/OSCeleton

• Kinect support for Cinder (a famous open source creative-coding library): This can be found at https://github.com/cinder/Cinder-Kinect

• Kinect for VVVV (a hybrid graphical programming environment): This can be found at http://vvvv.org/documentation/kinect

• Kinect for openFrameworks (another open source C++ toolkit for creative coding): This can be found at https://github.com/ofTheo/ofxKinect