Pecha Kucha Night Frankfurt 005 slides and links

posted by peter on October 31, 2007 | 0 comments | tags: DIY, OpenHardware, OpenSource, web,

Two weeks ago I was giving a speech at the Pecha Kucha Night | Frankfurt 005 on Web2.0 and Open Hardware. Pecha Kucha is a presentation format in which (mostly creative) work can be easily and informally shown. You can find more information about Pecha Kucha in this Wikipedia article …

Using reacTIVision in the InstantPlayer X3D browser

posted by peter on October 27, 2007 | 1 comments | tags: InstantPlayer, instantreality, JavaScript, MIDI, reacTIVision, tracking, X3D,
reactivision in action!

This article describes how to use the reacTIVision tracking framework in combination with the InstantPlayer X3D browser. It provides a solution based on reacTIVisions MIDI output, representing each fiducial by a node in the X3D scenegraph. The Fiducial X3D prototype node offers fields for position, angle and state of a …

A V4L2 camera engine for reacTIVision

posted by peter on October 21, 2007 | 2 comments | tags: reacTIVision, tracking,

I have written a V4L2 (video4Linux2) camera engine for reacTIVision under Linux. The engine was developed using a Logitech Quickcam 5000 (046d:08c5) but it should work with any V4L2 compatible camera.

Requirements

You need a working V4L2 camera. In my case I used the drivers from the linux-uvc project …