Writing an (Xbox 360) Kinect USB Driver - achievable?

lantus360 · 12 December 2016, 21:11

so i was thinking the other day about interfacing a (xbox 360) kinect into the Amiga.

Might be cool to implement some voice commands to kick off some things, and some other features . Really more of a proof of concept at this point.

So heres a list of things i need to make this work:

1) an Xbox 360 kinect. i have 3 of these laying around at home. not to hard to source
2) a USB device and USB stack. I have a Rapid-Road USB and Poseidon installed on 2 Amigas
3) a kinect SDK. Microsofts of course is closed source but there is the Open Kinect Initiative - http://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect. That should work nicely.

now - heres where i am stuck. libfreenect needs libusb to compile. I can likely work around this. but the issue now becomes, there doesn't seem to be an open source USB library amiga equivalent. Poseidon is closed source and i am at a stopping point. It looks like many different USB class drivers were written for Posideon. How would i go about writing my own?

I am familiar with USB and the challenge response descriptors etc to establish a handshake. But some guidance on how to proceed would be appreciated

TL;DR - am i wasting my time here?

saimon69 · 12 December 2016, 21:22

Actually Poseidon is open if you look at AROS 68k sources, plus it seems to remember that there was another guy doing something similar to you; try to search in aros-exec.

bubbob42 · 13 December 2016, 13:50

You could also request the Poseidon NDK from its author, Chris Hodges.

Galahad/FLT · 13 December 2016, 13:56

Wouldnt it be easier to use a USB bus sniffer on the PC and then replicate the results on the Amiga?

12 December 2016, 21:11	#1
lantus360 MVG Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Olathe, Kansas Posts: 215	Writing an (Xbox 360) Kinect USB Driver - achievable? so i was thinking the other day about interfacing a (xbox 360) kinect into the Amiga. Might be cool to implement some voice commands to kick off some things, and some other features . Really more of a proof of concept at this point. So heres a list of things i need to make this work: 1) an Xbox 360 kinect. i have 3 of these laying around at home. not to hard to source 2) a USB device and USB stack. I have a Rapid-Road USB and Poseidon installed on 2 Amigas 3) a kinect SDK. Microsofts of course is closed source but there is the Open Kinect Initiative - http://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect. That should work nicely. now - heres where i am stuck. libfreenect needs libusb to compile. I can likely work around this. but the issue now becomes, there doesn't seem to be an open source USB library amiga equivalent. Poseidon is closed source and i am at a stopping point. It looks like many different USB class drivers were written for Posideon. How would i go about writing my own? I am familiar with USB and the challenge response descriptors etc to establish a handshake. But some guidance on how to proceed would be appreciated TL;DR - am i wasting my time here?

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12 December 2016, 21:22	#2
saimon69 J.M.D - Bedroom Musician Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: los angeles,ca Posts: 3,574	Actually Poseidon is open if you look at AROS 68k sources, plus it seems to remember that there was another guy doing something similar to you; try to search in aros-exec.

13 December 2016, 13:50	#3
bubbob42 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 585	You could also request the Poseidon NDK from its author, Chris Hodges.

13 December 2016, 13:56	#4
Galahad/FLT Going nowhere Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: United Kingdom Age: 50 Posts: 9,014	Wouldnt it be easier to use a USB bus sniffer on the PC and then replicate the results on the Amiga?

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