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Log 6: Hiatus Interuptus - Google Coral Arrived

A project log for Pose2Art: SmartCam to TouchDesigner, Unity via OSC

Create an AI Camera run on small 'edge' device that extract Pose and sends tracked points via OSC to TouchDesigner and Unity for ART!

jerry-isdaleJerry Isdale 02/02/2023 at 02:010 Comments

This project has been on hiatus (hold) for a couple months after I got severely disappointed with the Raspberry Pi 4 speed.  That and needing to find some better TouchDesigner examples with Skeleton.  I found several of the later as well as inspiration from the interactiveimmersive.io folks, especially since signing up for their HQPro training.  I'll get to those in another update.

The BIG NEWS is the Google Coral Dev Board is back in stock at a few vendors (amazon and adafruit for 2).  I snagged one and just got it running.  Unfortunately the Coral Camera is not in stock and the connections are different enough from the RaspberryPi cameras that they are incompatible.  My older usb webcam also failed to be recognized by the coral. Fortunately, I found my Creative VF810 depth camera - same as the IntelRealSense SR300.  Unfortunately, these are no longer supported by Creative or Intel.  Fortunately, it still worked just fine with the Coral as video1 !!    So far I've only run thru the Demos in their Getting Started, but I have high hopes for getting it working with the OSC code.

I did also note that the SR300 shows up as 2 cameras.  The video2 camera appears to be the depth camera and I'll have to explore that more.

Not sure when i'll get updates here as life continues to keep me busy with other distractions (2 acres of rainforest/field in Haiku HI, etc) but please check in!

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