<![CDATA[Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available]]>

Dear Community,

I'm happy to present to you a three-part series on working with the Kinect using Isadora. These tutorials, 

written by Montgomery Martin, were based on techniques presented by Mark Coniglio during Troika Ranch’s Live-I Workshop in July 2015_._ They now live on the main TroikaTronix site.

Over the three part tutorial, we discuss how to use the open-source sketchbook application Processing to act as a communication bridge between the Kinect hardware and Isadora.

Part 1 serves as an introduction to the Kinect and what it can offer, along with some important points about particular versions of the camera:

[http://troikatronix.com/support/kb/kinect-tutorial-part1/](http://troikatronix.com/support/kb/kinect-tutorial-part1/)
In **Part 2** of this tutorial, we will learn how to download, install, and configure Processing to receive full body motion data and infrared video from an Xbox Kinect motion sensor. 

http://troikatronix.com/support/kb/kinect-tutorial-part2/

In Part 3, you will learn how to set up Isadora to receive the OSC and Syphon feeds that Processing broadcasts from the Xbox 360 Kinect camera.

http://troikatronix.com/support/kb/kinect-tutorial-part3/

Thank you especially to the rest of the TroikaTronix team for their valuable feedback and assistance in compiling, reviewing, and editing these tutorials: Mark Coniglio, Jamie Griffiths, and Ryan Webber, Michel Weber and Graham Thorne.

Cheers, and enjoy!

Sincerely,

Monty Martin and

The TroikaTronix Team

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/2403/kinect-isadora-tutorials-now-availableRSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 19:25:45 GMTSat, 16 Jan 2016 13:43:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Tue, 18 Feb 2020 15:14:33 GMT]]>Dear All,

As promised for today, the OpenNI Tracker "soft launch" can be found in this post. Please post your thoughts, reaction and feedback in that thread.

Best Wishes,
Mark

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39632https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39632Tue, 18 Feb 2020 15:14:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:59:36 GMT]]>@ril said:

 That is super super great news !! Monday will be just fine jaja

I'm still working on the tutorial but for sure will have it ready tomorrow, Feb 17.

Something came up and I couldn't really work on Sunday. Sorry for the delay.

Best Wishes,
Mark

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39602https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39602Mon, 17 Feb 2020 18:59:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Thu, 13 Feb 2020 02:28:34 GMT]]>@mark said:

Without them TroikaTronix wouldn't work at all

 In my experience TroikaTronix has a brilliant front end team. Apologies for the probing questions it feels a bit rude! 🐘

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39539https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39539Thu, 13 Feb 2020 02:28:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:05:34 GMT]]>@bonemap said:

TroikaTronix really too small to be backed up by a programming team? Are you really doing all of this on your own?

A decent programmer (meaning one with 75% of my skills) costs 80 Euros per hour in these parts (it's probably more in the USA.) That's around 150,000 EUR per year if they are working a 40 hour week.  So yes, we are too small and I'm doing all the programming on my own. Thank goodness we have @xenia, @Woland, @DusX, @mc_monte and our dear @Michel handling sales, technical support, testing and the forum. Without them TroikaTronix wouldn't work at all.

Best Wishes,
Mark

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39538https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39538Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:05:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:55:10 GMT]]>@woland said:

Good clones come to those who pay

 That is very on point. Let’s hope the OpenNi plugins provide a spike of healthy capital so TroikaTronix can go chasing those dreams...🔮

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39537https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39537Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:55:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:48:27 GMT]]>I thought the saying was “Good clones come to those who pay” 🤔

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39536https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39536Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:48:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:43:20 GMT]]>@woland said:

long-term plan

 Good things come to those with the virtue of patience 🥚

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39535https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39535Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:43:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:37:22 GMT]]>@bonemap

Currently yes, but our long-term plan is to save up enough capital to clone Mark seven times.

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39534https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39534Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:37:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:34:47 GMT]]>@mark said:

Please read my line from above carefully: 

 aarrgh!! Is TroikaTronix really too small to be backed up by a programming team? Are you really doing all of this on your own? It is amazing if you are, but....#succession planning #expansion #sustainability #coderwellbeing #e.t.c

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39533https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39533Wed, 12 Feb 2020 21:34:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:03:08 GMT]]>@mark That is super super great news !! Monday will be just fine jaja

Big hug,

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39531https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39531Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:03:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:01:11 GMT]]>@bonemap said:

what!!! wow!!! when????

Please read my line from above carefully: ...try to get these out before this Friday Feb 14, but I'm scrambling a bit to prepare a demo file. It might be Monday before it's ready.

I also need to record and edit a new tutorial tonight/tomorrow. I'll move as fast as I can but all of these thing take time.

Best Wishes,
Mark

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39527https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39527Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:01:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:56:50 GMT]]>@mark said:

I hope to have out on Friday

what!!! wow!!! when????

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39524https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39524Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:56:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:12:06 GMT]]>@ftp said:

Hello, I've just introduced the Kinect to my students, but it appears that the old tutorials for how to get it up and running have been wiped from the site?!Has it lost the support of the Isadora community? 

 Dear FTP,

We have integrated actors that work with the Kinect in Beta. I am going to try to get these out before this Friday Feb 14, but I'm scrambling a bit to prepare a demo file. It might be Monday before it's ready.

Note: these actors are for Isadora 3 only.

That said, I will have @Woland make you a beta tester right now. You can then get access to what I hope to have out on Friday. You could tnen try out the plugin yourself and get ready to introduce your students to it.

Best Wishes,
Mark

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39522https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39522Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:12:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:50:19 GMT]]>@ftp

Those tutorials were taken offline because they were for Isadora 2 and an update to one of the other pieces of software involved made the tutorials no longer viable. (Also the method used was not viable for Isadora 3.)

For Isadora 3 we have the kinect modules in development.

I preserved the files you should need to get it running on Isadora 2 and posted them here: https://community.troikatronix.com/topic/6363/what-is-the-best-alternative-to-ni-mate-for-kinect-v1-on-osx-today

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39520https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39520Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:50:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Wed, 12 Feb 2020 03:24:15 GMT]]>Hello, 

I've just introduced the Kinect to my students, but it appears that the old tutorials for how to get it up and running have been wiped from the site?!

Has it lost the support of the Isadora community? 


  Thanks in advance for any/all response,

   Tra B

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39516https://community.troikatronix.com/post/39516Wed, 12 Feb 2020 03:24:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Fri, 30 Dec 2016 21:10:31 GMT]]>I thought I would ask, since I was just about to post a tool I have built for using Kinect 2 with Isadora.
I will update this tutorial early in the new year.

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/22380https://community.troikatronix.com/post/22380Fri, 30 Dec 2016 21:10:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:36:16 GMT]]>no Ive got originalkinect

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/22377https://community.troikatronix.com/post/22377Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:36:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Thu, 29 Dec 2016 02:38:08 GMT]]>@moyrac

Sorry, without going thru the entire install/setup I can't help at the moment.
Do you have a Kinect V2?
]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/22373https://community.troikatronix.com/post/22373Thu, 29 Dec 2016 02:38:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Tue, 27 Dec 2016 19:26:44 GMT]]>Ok Ive got the spout  library in as suggested by release notes  but I dont know how to ammend the coding.

In  Isadora kinect processing tutorial I get error message
Cannot find a class ortypenamed "Spout"
not being a programmer I dont know how to fix this
]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/22369https://community.troikatronix.com/post/22369Tue, 27 Dec 2016 19:26:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Fri, 23 Dec 2016 20:07:32 GMT]]>The newest spout release has changed a few things.

"Recent support from package managers provide Spout downloads within the user environment. For Processing, "Spout for Processing" is available as a contributed library."

quote from release notes. https://github.com/leadedge/SpoutProcessing/releases

The SimpleOpenNi Lib is linked directly from the tutorial (hosted in Troikatronix)

We will be updating the tutorial in the near future, hopefully this helps you in the meantime.

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/22358https://community.troikatronix.com/post/22358Fri, 23 Dec 2016 20:07:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:55:32 GMT]]>Hi

I am trying to install the set up on windows 10\.  There are a number of files which dont seem to available in the locations described.
I cant find any of these files to add to tutorial folder  “spout.pde” and “JSpout.java” as well as the folder called “code”
Also I cannot locate the SimpleOpenNI library in processing 2.2.1
]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/22356https://community.troikatronix.com/post/22356Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:55:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Fri, 05 Aug 2016 07:32:53 GMT]]>@ursullivision

I think this method of connecting the Kinect to Isadora will not work on your OS version.
No work around that I am aware of.
]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/20681https://community.troikatronix.com/post/20681Fri, 05 Aug 2016 07:32:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:50:21 GMT]]>Everything works fine with my setup, great tutorials, thanx!

]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/20602https://community.troikatronix.com/post/20602Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:50:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Kinect + Isadora Tutorials Now Available on Mon, 25 Jul 2016 08:33:52 GMT]]>Hi all.  So I downloaded Processing 2.2.1, but I can't run it on OSX 10.6.8.
I tried with Procesing 1.5.1 and manually downloading and installing oscP5 and Syphon for Processing (unfortunately the oldest version I could find on the Syphon website is compiles for Processing 2).  Not surprisingly I get a series of errors when Processing tries to set up Syphon.

Does anybody have the Kinect working with OS 10.6.8?

Thanks for any help,

Eric
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]]>https://community.troikatronix.com/post/20583https://community.troikatronix.com/post/20583Mon, 25 Jul 2016 08:33:52 GMT