You've been able to download code samples through the Kinect for Windows Developer Toolkit for a while now, but that whole experience always seemed a bit clunky to me. Sometimes they can show overly basic projects, but also overly complex ones too under the same hat.

Kinect for Windows release open source code samples

I’m no C# expert – in fact, before making Moto I had never touched it before – but I had the task of making a Kinect project which handled multiple players.

Managing Multiple Players with Kinect in C#

As a means of procrastination while still having Visual Studio open, I buckled and installed Visual Studio Achievements as an extension to it. So now whenever I do some code well (or, apparently, badly) it’ll let me know and post it to the website.

Visual Studio Achievements

Metronomes. Key to any aspiring (or even professional) musician. They help you keep in time with the music you’re playing and without it we would be making a complete mess.

Creating a metronome effect in C#

Moto is my graduate project on my university course. It involves playing air instruments on the Kinect by mapping them to your body. But of course no band would be complete without at least one guitarist, so that’s what I’ll show you now.

Making a guitar for the Kinect SDK

Here’s another video I made, by request, on how to move the Kinect using code. Kind of like how it does it at the start of each Xbox game, but only manually. If I ever learn how it can judge where to look automatically, I’ll let you know.

Controlling the Kinect’s Tilt in C#

I’ve created a 13-minute video to get you running your first Kinect for Windows code, going through every stage right from opening up a blank C# and WPF project.

Getting Started with Kinect SDK Beta 2

Natural User Interfaces are great. They aren’t just an input method, but they adapt to who is using them or indeed how they are using them. We could go into the complexes of NUI here but I’m not going to. Instead I’m going to give you an alternative to the gesture-based user interface you’re used to with Kinect – speech recognition and voice navigation.

Speech Recognition with the Kinect SDK

A while back I detailed my first foray into Kinect development. Now I’ve learnt a bit since then, which includes a much simpler way of taking a picture using the Kinect’s RGB camera and saving that to the computer.

Taking a picture with the Kinect using Coding4Fun

I’m a bit of a newbie when it comes to C# programming in it’s entirety, not just with Kinect development. So when it was announced Beta 2 was available I pounced unknowingly into the undocumented depths of version migration. While the Kinect for Windows team have done a fine job with the update, it’s just not that well documented for average Joes like me.

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