This week, I started working on getting the Intel Realsense camera to work. While we were anticipating on using the Oak-D cameras, we realized that other teams have checked out the cameras already, leaving us with the Realsense camera. There is nothing wrong with the Realsense camera, but we found out that it wasn’t fully compatible with Macs. However, I have an Intel NUC that runs on Ubuntu 24.04, so there is no huge issue. After downloading the necessary libraries, I was able to run the realsense application and turn on the camera. The image below displays a heightmap of me sitting on a chair holding a guitar:
The next step after this is to actually get a good depthmap for different shapes and see if I can convert them into actual measurements.