[PD] [PD-announce] [leapmotion] version 0.2.0 on deken

William Brent william.brent at gmail.com
Tue Dec 27 21:02:22 CET 2022


Hi Miller, yes I can confirm that [pd~] works with this in Max 8. There's
also the option of a simple Pd patch that sends the data to Max via OSC,
and I'm considering your suggestion from an older thread: just make a
command line app that sends the data via OSC. For now I think I'm going to
finish this up as an extern...

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 1:21 PM Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> I think Max users can use pd~ to run this.
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 06:08:44PM -0500, William Brent wrote:
> > Hey Joao,
> >
> > Chikashi also has a mac build of [leapmotion] available here
> > <
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://puredatajapan.info/?page_id=1514__;!!Mih3wA!Haw4yo5G_N5jRUNIA9_p9jl43vxppxKYmzyb0cOH8fDT60JS_bGp2awgbPKBnG_tJAvFw6e-Sm3NUZM_QaA$
> >, but it seems to be using SDK 1.
> > So at least this version allows us to use 2.3.1. That's as far as we can
> go
> > on macOS unless Leap changes their stance on mac development. But I'm
> > messing around some with the latest 5.7.2 SDK and I'm not having any
> > trouble building/linking on both Linux and Windows. And on those
> platforms
> > I'm able to connect to both the original Leap Motion Controller and the
> new
> > Ultraleap hardware.
> >
> > I'm not sure about the best way to consolidate everything that's been
> done
> > in this area, especially since I decided to remove the FLEXT layer, which
> > will be important for Max/MSP users. Myself, I'm only interested in
> > building this for Pd and I want to keep things as simple as possible. And
> > if I follow through working with SDK 5.7.2, we'll have access to the
> latest
> > version of Leap software/hardware on all 3 platforms. I'm totally open to
> > working and organizing together on this...whatever seems to be the best
> > way. I think I'll have time to get the code up to a good stopping point
> > over the holidays.
> >
> > As for the gestures - do you mean adding a system for
> training/recognizing
> > user-defined gestures beyond the existing circle/swipe/tap gestures? I'm
> > interested in that idea for sure, but don't have the deep learning chops
> to
> > pull it off yet.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 1:21 PM João Pais <jmmmpais at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi William,
> > > nice that you made this also for mac. I'm thinking that since each
> version
> > > of the object is in a different repository (I have the windows
> version, you
> > > have mac, and Chikashi has linux), would it make sense to
> cross-reference
> > > them? I guess putting them all together might be too much.
> > >
> > > I haven't used my leap too much, mostly because after some
> performances I
> > > wanted to use more complex control such as gestures. But I couldn't
> program
> > > anything myself, and didn't find any way of using e.g. machine
> learning or
> > > similar for that. Is this some kind of work you also do? Could you
> > > recommend any such libraries, even if not for Pd?
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Joao
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > After years of using Chikashi Miyama's [leapmotion] object, I decided
> to
> > > fork his repo in order to make some changes and build against the most
> > > recently available Leap SDK for macOS (2.3.1). Information about
> specific
> > > changes can be found by visiting the repo:
> > >
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/wbrent/leapmotion__;!!Mih3wA!Haw4yo5G_N5jRUNIA9_p9jl43vxppxKYmzyb0cOH8fDT60JS_bGp2awgbPKBnG_tJAvFw6e-Sm3NTvTeC8Q$
> . I've also uploaded deken packages
> > > for macOS/Intel and Linux.
> > >
> > > Note that this external is for the original Leap Motion Controller, and
> > > not the current Ultraleap Controller. I may keep working on this in
> order
> > > to use the latest Leap SDK (5.7.2) for Ultraleap compatibility under
> Linux
> > > and Windows, but there seems to be no plan for supporting that device
> under
> > > macOS, hence the freeze at SDK 2.3.1 for now...
> > >
> > > I hope it's helpful to someone out there!
> > > William
> > >
> > >
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