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2011-05-23 14:49:15 -0500 marked best answer Rosjava + Android phone + Kinect, is it possible?

Two thoughts:

  1. You'll have the usual powering-the-Kinect problem. Just a USB port isn't enough; see the Create <-> Kinect Tutorial for details on how to build a power supply in a particular case.
  2. The Kinect (both the OpenNI and libfreenect versions) are in C[++], not Java. I don't know if user processes on Android have to be in Java, but just having ROSJava doesn't get you Kinect support out of the box.
2011-05-23 05:01:54 -0500 answered a question Rosjava + Android phone + Kinect, is it possible?

If the support for ROSJava is limited at the moment, for the purposes of getting an Android phone up and running quickly with a Kinect, is there an immediate disadvantage in using a rooted Android phone with an install of Ubuntu (and then ROS), as opposed to RosJava?

Would the rooted phone with an arm version of ubuntu give me the support to run the Kinect?

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2011-05-22 08:41:00 -0500 asked a question Rosjava + Android phone + Kinect, is it possible?

Hi All,

The announcement of the Java wrapper to run ROS on Android phones is really exciting. I was wondering how someone might connect a Kinect to an android phone to use it as a sensor? I'd like to build a small robot and an Android phone seems like a great alternative to a fully blown laptop.

Any help would be appreciated.