Kinect hack

[TheEtaUnderdog]

I dunno how many people are into device hacking, but this is pretty slick

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/11/10/we-have-a-winner-open-kinect-drivers-released-winner-will-use-3k-for-more-hacking-plus-an-additional-2k-goes-to-the-eff/

[Kershaw]

awesome.

[TheEtaUnderdog]

for real, he's also putting the 3k toward the iphone dev team and the wii hack team. plus an extra 2k goes to the eff

the kinect is now a fucking college kids dream for projects, would be sick to use in an EE or ECE senior design project

[e30e]

Explain to idiots like me what this means please

[ck_taft325is]

Kinect on his Laptop, PC, PS3 from what I gather. Whatever he wants to use it for.

[george graves]

I work for adafruit! Microsoft is not pleased. Well - their PR department isn't.

[Kershaw]

dude, adafruit is a pretty cool website.

[Fusion]

It would be awesome if you could plug the iPhone into the xbox via usb cable to use it as a kinect device.
Is that possible?

[TheEtaUnderdog]

It would be awesome if you could plug the iPhone into the xbox via usb cable to use it as a kinect device.
Is that possible?

the kinect was hacked not the 360 itself. you can use the kinect on a linux pc now, thats the cool part

[TheEtaUnderdog]

I work for adafruit! Microsoft is not pleased. Well - their PR department isn't.

always knew you had to be a smart guy :D

also explains where the knowledge to make some of your products comes from.

I was a computer engineering major back in college, similar background?

[scabzzzz]

So this mean you can make certain hand gestures translate into what would normally be a physical hand input on a keyboard and mouse?

Whats the relativity? I guess I need to play with a Kinect to understand. :(

Edit: ok I get it. they are basically just proving its possible to use the motion and heat sensitivity to control other devices other than Xbox. there is no invention, just manipulation. Nevermind!

[TheEtaUnderdog]

microsoft is fucking pissed...

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/11/microsoft-not-amused-by-open-source-kinect-drivers.ars

but good luck at them stopping the community from making opensource drivers for hardware you purchase.