Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 1/04/2013: 6,150 steps and 4.5 km traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/229VLQ


Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 1/03/2013: 6,828 steps and 4.9 km traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/229VLQ


Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 1/02/2013: 7,043 steps and 5.1 km traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/229VLQ


Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 1/01/2013: 7,608 steps and 5.4 km traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/229VLQ


Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 12/31/2012: 5,899 steps and 4.2 km traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/229VLQ


Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 12/28/2012: 8,221 steps and 5.9 km traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/229VLQ


Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 12/26/2012: 4,668 steps and 3.3 km traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/229VLQ


Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 12/25/2012: 2,760 steps and 2 km traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/229VLQ


Point of View is Worth 80 IQ Points


Not clicking, waving….

I’ve been helping my kids with their homework, and one of them (I wont name who, so as to avoid any embarrassment) had to deliver a presentation in PowerPoint. I wanted to add a bit of pizzazz to the experience looked at hooking up a Kinect so that they could present with gestures, rather than clicking with a mouse.

skeletonSeems like a good idea, right?

I grabbed the Kinect for Windows SDK, and went looking on codeplex for kinect related samples, where I found the Kinect PowerPoint Control. It was nice, but It didn’t do exactly what I wanted.

By coincidence, Dr Neil sent me an email about nsquared slyda, which just lets me change between slides using hand gestures.

Perfecto!!

We had a practice session and kiddo can move forward and back, with a wave of the hands.

Next stop, the classroom!!!

BTW – I see that boffins at nsquared solutions are working on more Kinect apps. I got a ping last night from Dr Neil about nsquared spydar, which is like the Coding4Fun Kinect Turret minus the violence.  I got it set up – now let’s see who comes and uses my PC when I’m away….