turtlebot kinect mounting

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I use the four holes on the bottom of the Kinect base. I tapped them out with four small screws (don't remember if metric or SAE). Built two stacked adapter plates from plexiglass to mount to a servo panning turret (Servocity SPT-200). One plate bolts to the turret (countersunk screws), one to the Kinect (countersunk screws) and then I bolt through both plates on the outside edge to complete the mounting.

Using the Kinect base mount holes allows use of the Kinect tilt motor, which is useful as the tilt angle targets are relative to the built-in accelerometer (gravity, tilt angles are relative to a level floor). I also have a separate tilt servo for looking straight down at the arm hand position in close to the robot, as the Kinect can only angle down to about 25 degrees.

It looks like the turtlebot uses custom holes drilled in the kinect (someone else could answer this better). However, I've been happy using a piece from the kinect wall mount, which includes a little snap-on piece with a standard 1/4"-20 tripod hole.