Over these past couple of weeks my final year project Moto has been on show for a few days in Bournemouth and London. It’s been an interesting experience and I’ve met some great people in some surprisingly different areas of expertise, but it’s really taught me a massive load about not just Kinect, but development in general.

Moto On Tour

It’s a course requirement that we make a trailer for our project. This is mine for Moto.

Moto Trailer

I’m creating a Kinect experience called Moto at the moment (you’ve probably heard me banging on about it somewhere) where you get to play air instruments for realsies. There’s guitars and drum kits superimposed on the screen it’s magical:

Scaling instruments in Moto

Just another update to show where Moto is at the moment if you can’t play it where you are.

Moto Update #2

Here’s something I’m trying out – Moto is now on Github. Crikey.

Moto is now on Github

So. You’re new to the Kinect for Windows SDK, or you tried out the beta and are ready for the big time? Awesome. While I’d love to do a walkthrough video like I did for Beta 2 but since the update my screen recorder software doesn’t get on with the Kinect. Bummer. So text it is.

Introduction to the Kinect for Windows SDK (v1)

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#

This may sound a little “…hang on, that’s old news!” but nope. February 1st signalled the release of the first official Kinect for Windows SDK sans its ‘beta’ tag. It’s the first official release of the SDK which is released alongside a Kinect designed for use with Windows itself.

Kinect for Windows SDK v1 is released!

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.

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