How can I stream Kinect V2 tracking data from PC to Raspberry Pi 3 through WiFi?

Question

I'm currently working with Kinect v2. I can do all sort of stuff on PC with it. What I want to do next is, to get the data I want on PC and control the Raspberry Pi with that data (for example, I will move the Pi with motors when I tilt my head to right). I have sorted out the motors and everything but I just don't know how to use that tracking data I have on PC to control the Pi.

I hope the question makes sense, i'm just extremely new to both Pi and Kinect.

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

The first step is to choose the bus that will connect the PC to the Raspberry PI.

Your options are:

• Serial bus: Pi Serial tutorial,USB Serial to Pi cable
• Network Socket (cable/wifi): Socket client/server c++ examples
• i2c: i2c windows PC, Configuring i2c on Pi

I believe that the i2c or serial bus will be the easiest to start with. But in the end all 3 options need to set up the connection, and send and receive bytes / byteArrays.