Thursday, March 17, 2016

Gesture control for your Raspberry Pi: This software makes it possible – t3n Magazine

The German company Myestro presented with AirPointr software, thanks to the Raspberry Pi can be controlled with hand gestures – but the whole thing has a price

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AirPointr. (Photo: Myestro)



Raspberry Pi with hands control

the software AirPointr the German company Myestro it should be possible to control the Raspberry Pi with hand gestures. For this, a camera image of the user is analyzed and recognized the gestures, thanks to at least rudimentary gesture control can a mouse or keyboard for inputting commands therefore be dispensed with.



gesture control on Raspberry Pi thanks AirPointr. (Image: Myestro)
Gesture control the Raspberry Pi thanks AirPointr. (Image: Myestro)

AirPointr currently detects circular movements of the hand. Also swipe gestures and hand movements can be used as operator commands. In addition to a Raspberry Pi a directly connected to the CSI-interface camera module (color or infrared) is required. A USB camera does not readily loud Myestro. According Golem.de the 3D graphics performance is impaired when 2er model of Raspberry Pi by using the GPU. The new Raspberry Pi 3 with its two graphics cores is less affected.

AirPointr is not, however, available for free. Currently required plus VAT for the software license on the manufacturer side 7,99 Euro. Usually costs the download of “AirPointr Raspberry” there 11.99 euros

Raspberry Pi and AirPointr:. Music player with hand use

Examples of possible applications, the developers in tutorials on Github provided. So to thanks AirPointr and Raspberry Pi via gesture control about the media programs Music Player Daemon or Kodi (formerly XBMC) be served. In addition to AirPointr can be integrated via HTML5 on web pages. For its own programs is an API.

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