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Yeah this could easily be adapted for windows, it would just involve changing the application addresses within the software for the apps you want to launch with the buttons.

Yes the code should work on windows 7, however you will need to adapt the application addresses within the processing code to the right locations for the .exe files that will launch your apps. These will be specific to your own computer.

Thanks!

No problem, thanks for noticing there was a mistake. Awesome I'll be keen to see what you come up with, if I were to do it again I'd add a 6th button on the side that brings up the user interface.

Hey sorry about that! I realise now I accidentally saved the test code over the final code before uploading it. I have just fixed, tested and uploaded the new working .ino file to step 5 as <Laptop_buddy_rgb2.ino>The only difference between the test code and this one is the 'Serial.println' function has been changed to 'Serial.write'. Println is used to print the data to the serial monitor whereas write is used to transfer the data to processing through the port. Hope this fixes your project and let me know if you have any more questions.Best of luck!

Hey thanks man! you're light matrix is cool, got my vote too

Thanks dude

I'm glad to hear you like it, best of luck with your project I'd love to see what you come up with.

Thanks! glad it provides some inspiration. I'll be happy to answer any questions to help you make one yourself.

Thanks, I have been wanting to build something like this ever since I learnt about serial communication.

Thanks man! I love anything that speeds up my workflow too.

I'd like to be a judge in Tech related contests, I spend a lot of time looking through the tech category already so i'd love to start helping where I can.

The software doesn't need to be active, it can be minimized and still work in the background. Thanks for pointing this out I should have addressed that in my video since it's a big part of what makes this tool useful.

I believe it can be used with windows 10. The only issue is Processing isn't fully capable on windows 10 yet. I think there are work arounds to fix it though which you can read about here: https://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/11598/windows-10

Hey man I just followed the instructable step by step, plugged the kinect into my mac with the usb and tried to connect it to processing. I tried to start up one of the examples from the 'Open Kinect for Processing' Library and got this error: No Kinect devices found.Failed to open camera subdevice or it is not disabled.Failed to open motor subddevice or it is not disabled.Failed to open audio subdevice or it is not disabled.There are no kinects, returning nullIs there something else I need to do before it works?

Nice work dude, 2 votes for hufflepuff

Nice work dude, 2 votes from me

Nice work dude, 2 votes for hufflepuff