xography/kinectboard

An awesome kinect board.

kinectboard

An awesome kinect board.

Required Librarys

• pthreads
• libfreenect https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect
• Nvidia CUDA SDK >= 4.2
• OpenGL 3
• Glut 3
• SDL 1.2

On Debian, try:

apt-get install build-essential cmake libsdl1.2-dev freeglut3-dev libglew-dev

Install CUDA

Download and install the CUDA SDK >= 4.2 and the NVidia GPU Computing SDK >= 4.2 for your platform from http://www.nvidia.com/content/cuda/cuda-downloads.html

Install libfreenect

Install the latest git version of libfreenect. We used version efd073eacfc54a7c028729596858d1618e134b16:

git clone git://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect.git
cd libfreenect
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr CMakeLists.txt
make
sudo make install

Build with cmake

Afterwards, build kinectboard:

git clone git://github.com/mstap/kinectboard.git
cd kinectboard
cmake .
make

The binaries will be placed in either bin (64 Bit) or bin32 (32 Bit legacy support) depending on your platform. To start kinectboard you either need to add the corresponding bin folder to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH or run ./kinectboard.sh in the bin folders.