Integrating Leap Motion with Intel Edison

https://medium.com/@ramith/motion-sensing-with-intel-edison-41e3cbd4ac5f

by vpj • 11 years ago

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fapjacks3• 11 years ago

To be perfectly honest, and from the perspective of someone who pre-ordered a Leap Motion on day one of their first demo video... This is about all the Leap Motion is useful for. It's actually pretty terrible.

dominotw• 11 years ago

I threw mine out couple of months ago totally convinced that noone can ever make it useful.

leapmotion_alex2• 11 years ago

Sorry to hear that; have you had a chance to try it with VR?

aceperry2• 11 years ago

I was disappointed in how the leap motion was integrated with the Edison. The article uses a computer to talk directly to the leap motion and has a program send simple commands to the edison. You can do the same thing with an arduino board, no need for an Edison. I was at a hackathon where both the Edison and leap motion were available, but I couldn't figure out how to integrate the edison with the leap motion easily, or within a weekend. Wish the leap motion was a little more portable, especially for embedded systems like the Edison. That could really drive the leap motion's popularity.

fapjacks3• 11 years ago

One of the major problems with this is that whatever you're hooking the Leap Motion up to will need to be pretty beefy, since the way the LM works is by offloading the processing needed by the sensors [0]. The Leap Motion is in such a small form factor precisely because it doesn't actually do very much on the inside. All of the processing is done on the connected host. I have no idea what the minimum requirements for that processing is, but I don't think a RPi or Edison is going to cut it.

[0] http://blog.leapmotion.com/understanding-latency-part-1/

aceperry2• 11 years ago

The Edison has a dual core atom cpu. Don't really know how powerful it is, but it's pretty powerful for a small cpu.

shalmanese• 11 years ago

It's pretty hefty, at least 1Ghz or so of desktop CPU. They've struggled to translate the leap to a raspberry pi/ARM platform because of the processing constraints.

leapmotion_alex2• 11 years ago

Definitely -- being able to process 120+ frames of stereo image data, every second, with near-imperceptible latency, involves a decent chunk of processing power. That's why we recommend 2GHz at a minimum. The alternative would have been for us to sacrifice one of three things -- speed, accuracy, or low cost.

duckman12• 11 years ago

This article should be titled: Integrating a device with no purpose with a Macbook and Intel Edison.

jgeorge• 11 years ago

I was super excited when the Leap Motion was announced, and I jumped at the preorder for one. That was however long ago it was, and it's been stored in it's box since. It's very cool technology but I have yet to find a problem that it's a workable solution for (sorry, Alex... I really want to like it.)

Integrating Leap Motion with Intel Edison

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