New Version of Firefly 1.0063 and Kinect Beta Release

A new version of Firefly (1.0063) and Firefly Kinect beta release is now available! The latest version of Firefly offers many new components including: Bang, AND Flip Flop, NOR Flip Flop, Counter, Frame Rate, Stop Watch, and Is Key Pressed. You can read more about all the new tools here.

A lot of additional work has gone into the Arduino Code Generator and the new Firefly Code Editor (which can be invoked by double-clicking on the Code Generator component). Many new functions have been added to the function library for the Code Generator (including almost all of the latest Firefly components). In addition, the Code Editor has gone through a major overhaul to add many more features. There are still plenty of other features that have to be added to the Code Editor to make it a fully functional IDE, but the current changes are a big step in the right direction.

Today also marks the first release of the Firefly Kinect related components. Microsoft has placed certain restrictions on applications that want to use their official SDK, and as such this version will only work with Rhino 5.0 beta 32-bit version. In addition, you must have Windows 7 installed on your machine. Because of these restrictions, I have decided to release the Firefly Kinect build as a separate download. There are installation instructions included in the download file with step-by-step instructions on how to get up and running with the Kinect for Grasshopper. Currently, there is only one component, the Skeleton Tracker which will track up to two people moving in front of the sensor. Videos of the Skeleton Tracker in action can be seen here and here. I intend to add more functionality and new Kinect related components in the near future. Suggestions are always welcome. And, because this is the first release, please let me know if you find any bugs or problems with the component (hopefully there wont be many of these, but please be patient).

You can download the latest version of Firefly (1.0063) and the beta release of Firefly Kinect either of these two sources:

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Gia Djahaia on October 7, 2011 at 1:26am

Thank you for the release. Will take a look asap.

Permalink Reply by Minh on December 29, 2011 at 4:14pm

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your work.

I am currently trying to connect my computer with a kinect using firefly. I followed your instruction excepted isntalling WinAVR (I think it is useless for the kinect module)

I realized that I have a 64 version of rhino 5, could it be a source of failure?

Thanks in advance

Minh

Permalink Reply by Andy Payne on December 29, 2011 at 8:19pm

Hi Minh,

You will not need WinAVR if you're only using the Kinect component (this is only really for uploading sketches to the arduino board directly from Grasshopper). I've had success running the Kinect skeleton tracker in both versions of Rhino 5.0. Could you take a look at this post on the Firefly forum and see if it answers your question: http://www.fireflyexperiments.com/discussions/post/1641412 If it doesn't, please let me know and I will do my best to try to troubleshoot.

Cheers,

Andy

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