Manually creating Hand gestures with Python

[lionbaker]

I am using python 2.7 sdk for V2 software and I wanted to get the tap gesture on leap motion to be detected. But it seems that all the gestures are deprecated and are no longer detected. How can I detect tapping with leap motion now?

Would I have to get positions of the distal phalanges and see if they move up and down along the y axis?

[ericjohanson]

Hi Lion,

So if you want to build something using the latest software you can either interact directly with the leap sdk via leapc or using the c# bindings. The docs are here https://developer.leapmotion.com/documentation/v4/index.html.

If you want to use python, you can use the older software, we just don't update it anymore.

If you enable web apps in the settings and go to http://127.0.0.1:6437, you can see all the data captured from the websocket.

With respect to detecting tapping, you can get the location of the tips of the finger to see if it's crossed a "virtual" touch plane, which would be the z component here.

Let me know if this helps.

Best,
Eric