From eb4b6d1f07929a04f64ed8083c94069139bb95b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Devine Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 19:10:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3d0d039..7a495ed 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ And here is an example of the robot copying a human: It's a long way short of a good kinematic example, but it does work. We used the software we used because we only had a Kinect 1 to play with, you could do something much better with a Kinect 2. -# Software requirements -We got our demo running in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on an i7 870 CPU with 8GB of ram. +# Software + Hardware requirements +We got our demo running in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on an i7 870 CPU with 8GB of RAM. +The Kinect V1 is the unit from the Xbox 360, it requires a USB adapter to connect to a computer. You'll need Processing version 2.2.1 (an old version) and the Open/SimpleNI libraries for it to get the Kinect working. -At the robot end, we had a Baxter from Rethink Robotics, running ROS (internally) and then a ROS session on our computer to connect to it. +At the robot end, we had a Baxter from Rethink Robotics, running ROS (internally) and then a ROS session on our computer to connect to it. In between we had our own private LAN with a router acting as DHCP server. # Conclusion It worked as we hoped, the Kinect would occasionally lose people.