Author: RafaelFajardo

I am a designer, researcher, and educator. I am the founder and director of SWEAT, a loose collaborative dedicated to the creation of socially conscious videogames. I am a co-principle investigator for the P4 Games project and a co-investigator with the Institute for the Digital Humanities at the University of Denver. I am Associate Professor at the University of Denver where I am tenured in the School of Art and Art History. I teach in the Emergent Digital Practices program and in the Game Development program.

Multiple kinects into one texture | vvvv

by  on  in Rafael Fajardo, research, resources, SWEAT 3.0, Work In Progress

With overlapping Kinects you have to deal with interference. Here are two interesting articles on how to overcome these problems by using a small vibrating motor: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/171706/shake’n’Sense.pdf http://www.cs.unc.edu/~fuchs/kinect_VR_2012.pdf Being able to track across the whole range would mean to calibrate the cameras accordingly. You could have a look at some of the projector calibration scenarios – e.g. using a checker… Read more →

Setting up Raspberry Pi for Xtion and Kinect

by  on  in Rafael Fajardo, research, resources, SWEAT 3.0, Work In Progress

_Using Win32DiskImager (for windows) _downloaded 2012-08-16-wheezy-raspbian from website ( http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads ) _burnt the image onto a 16Gb Class 10 (up to 95MB/s) Sandisk Extreme Pro card _Powerup the Pi using a 5V 1Amp supply _Note: Italics is what is typed into the Pi shell or added to scripts/code…. via: mewgen.com Read more →

Raspberry Pi Thermal imaging or Nightvision?

by  on  in games, Rafael Fajardo, research, resources, SWEAT 3.0, Work In Progress

by KevinO » Sat May 25, 2013 10:24 pm PrimeSense sensor has a infrared camera on it that works with the raspberry pi using openNI. Here is a shot of the sensors streaming. All three sensors displayed. http://forums.trossenrobotics.com/gallery/files/8/6/6/6/sensors.jpg Here is a video of it on my robot. via Raspberry Pi • View topic – Thermal imaging/ Nightvision?. Read more →

Announcing Skeltrack by Joaquim Rocha

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Announcing Skeltrack Posted on March 21, 2012 After being able to control the basic features of a Kinect device (or any time-of-flight camera), the next thing many users look for is skeleton tracking. Skeleton tracking means to easily retrieve different joints of the human skeleton from depth images. The most famous solutions (or the only ones) to do so are… Read more →