Configuring Kinect with processing in ubuntu

To configure kinect with processing in ubuntu 12.04..first download openni installer

wget http://simple-openni.googlecode.com/files/OpenNI_NITE_Installer-Linux32-0.27.zip

uncompress the file…there will be four folders like this.

Inside kinect folder there will be one more folder named Sensor-Bin-Linux…all folders will be having an install.sh file

open a terminal and cd to each folder and issue the following install command

sudo ./install.sh

Now download processing software i used the stable release processing 1.5

wget http://processing.googlecode.com/files/processing-1.5.1-linux.tgz

extract it

Now download SimpleOpenNI processing library

wget http://simple-openni.googlecode.com/files/SimpleOpenNI-0.27.zip

when you run processing for the first time a folder named sketchbook will be created inside home folder

Copy the ‘SimpleOpenNI.zip’ into this folder:

~/sketchbook/libraries

and extract it

if you don’t have libraries folder then create one inside sketchbook

Now restart porcessing from file menu take Examples>Contributed Libraries>simple openni and select depth image example.

Connect the kinect to the system .Now compile and run the code if sucessfulyou will get an output window like this.

You need java installed in yur system for the working of processing

Happy Hacking

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