Leap Motion gesture input mapper

Leapgim Client

Recipes

Recipes are how signs are translated into actions. The term is borrowed from IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/).

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signs -> | recipe | -> actions
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Action Types

Mouse buttons:

• Mouse button down
• Mouse button up
• Mouse button click
• Mouse button double click
• Mouse scroll

Mouse movement:

• Move
• Freeze
• Unfreeze
• Toggle freeze

Keyboard:

• Key down
• Key up
• Key tap

Misc:

• Compound (trigger a list of other actions)
• System (run a script)
• Reconfigure (load another profile / client config)

Signs

Signs are hand gestures in leapgim context. A sign can contain contain information about hand hand poses, native gestures, and time constraints.

We use the term 'sign' to provide a clear distinction from leap motion's native gestures circle, swipe, key tap and screen tap.

Setup

Windows 10 dependencies

• Nodejs and nvm: https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows (download and install)

nvm install 4.1.2
nvm use 4.1.2
node -v

• git: https://git-scm.com/download/win
• node-gyp: npm install -g node-gyp
• Visual Studio 2013
• Python (v2.7.3 recommended, v3.x.x is not supported).

Ubuntu 14.04 dependencies

Node.js versions can be easily switched with the n package. In order to run leapgim you propably need to install it and switch node.js versions to whatever we're using for the moment.

Install n and switch node.js versions:

sudo npm install n -g
sudo n 2.14.4

sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ xorg-dev xutils xutils-dev libx11-dev libzmq3 libzmq3-dev

Install

npm install git+https://[email protected]/zeukkari/leapgim.git

Running

npm start