Leap Motion

[curiouspuya]

Hi all,

 

For those who know about leap motion (https://www.leapmotion.com/) you may know that the SDK is now released and anyone can sign up as developer to download this.   The first devices ship out July 22.  I was surprised to find no one on LAVA has been posting hacks and ideas since I know at least a few Labview developers were part of the first wave last year who got send a free device to play with.

 

Does anyone have experience with the Leap motion device?  Anyone planning to start playing with the controller soon?

 

Puya

[David_L]

I haven't played with it, but it does seem that the LabVIEW Hacker group has created an experimental LabVIEW API already.  Check it out:

 

http://www.labviewhacker.com/doku.php?id=%20[[projects:lv_leap_interface:lv_leap_interface|]]

[Minh Pham]

how do i get one of this

[curiouspuya]

Thanks David_L,

 

I just got my Leapmotion today.  Minh, you can buy one from the leapmotion.com website.  its $120 for Australians and it took only 5 days to get to me with FedEx.  I am about to start playing with it.  i have also signed up as a developer and downloaded the SDK.

 

For anyone who has a Leapmotion, lets please share our joys and frustrations with it. 

 

 

Puya

[Wire Warrior]

I bought a Leap Motion last night.  I am still playing with it and I am hoping to use it with LabVIEW this week.  Seems like a great excuse to use LV2013!!

 

Also if you haven't noticed Norm Kirchner is doing an impromptu Leap demo/presentation at #NIWeek.

[Tim_S]

I've been keeping an eye on this as it looks like an interface with lots of potential. (Unfortunately, I don't have one to play with.   ) I've seen two reviews that may be helpful:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2013/jul/29/leap-motion-review-i-want-my-hoverboard

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/07/hands-on-with-the-leap-motion-controller-cool-but-frustrating-as-hell/

 

There seems to be difficulty with extraneous light and arm fatigue.

[Wire Warrior]

Yeah I noticed some light related issues at first too.  I did figure that Best Buy has them on the shelf at the same price you can get them for on the website.

[curiouspuya]

I looked at the Labviewer hacker site but they are not providing any code or help with code!  looks like a job from scratch!  

 

@Tim_S I bought mine from LeapMotion website from Australia.  It was $80 + $20 shipping.  It came in just 4 days shipped from Singapore hassle free.  If you have a spare $100 you can get one quick!

 

If anyone has code to share on LeapMotion that would be lovely.  I will put mine up as soon as I can talk to mine.

 

best regards

 

P

[Tim_S]

@Tim_S I bought mine from LeapMotion website from Australia.  It was $80 + $20 shipping.  It came in just 4 days shipped from Singapore hassle free.  If you have a spare $100 you can get one quick!

 

Unfortunately my current experiment, a grow your own minion home kit, seems to be sucking all my resources for the foreseeable future.

[Wire Warrior]

I saw on the Twitter feeds that Norm Kirchner was doing an impromptu presentation on Leap Motion at NIWeek.  Did that happen?  If so, can we get the code?????

[Daklu]

I didn't see Norm's impromptu Leap Motion presentation, but I think that's what he was using with his scheduled presentation... right up until he disconnected it because it wasn't behaving. 

[Michael Aivaliotis]

I didn't see Norm's impromptu Leap Motion presentation, but I think that's what he was using with his scheduled presentation... right up until he disconnected it because it wasn't behaving. 

 

If anyone knows Norm, you know how much hand waving he does when he gets excited. Well, the Leap Motion got hand wave overload

[Tim_S]

FYI... There is an open source community for LeapMotion: http://openleap.org/

[curiouspuya]

FYI... There is an open source community for LeapMotion: http://openleap.org/

 

That's great!  I reckon we should start our own LabLeap GIT hub to share code.  when you finish making your Minion maybe you can try some Leap coding!  Your minion might be Leap-gesture controlled by the way

[JLMommy]

NI does plan on eventually releasing the API they developed but haven't given a date yet:

https://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/leap-motion-controller-toolkit-for-labview

[curiouspuya]

NI does plan on eventually releasing the API they developed but haven't given a date yet:

https://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/leap-motion-controller-toolkit-for-labview

 

Thanks for this.  I didnt know.  I just joined the group at NI