$2,000 Bounty Put on Open-Source Kinect Drivers. New York-based Adafruit Industries really wants to get its hands on open-source drivers for Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 peripheral, Kinect. So much so that the firm is offering a handsome bounty for the first successful release.
Escapist, Hack Kinect, Win Money – A DIY electronics outfit in New York is offering a prize to the first hacker to reverse engineer Microsoft’s Kinect.
Kotaku – DIY hardware champions adafruit industries want somebody to come up with a set of open source drivers for Microsoft’s Kinect, so anyone can run the thing on all kinds of different computer systems. There’s a reward…
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Someone needs to look at the camera in a Kanye-like fashion during the next ask-an-engineer and say, “Microsoft doesn’t care about hack people” before cutting the camera.
Surprised nobody has mentioned the grand irony of Microsoft’s stance, particularly given that Microsoft hired the guy most famous for hacking the wiimote, Johnny Chung Lee, to work on Natal: http://aol.it/911ZTT
Begs the question “were it not for community hacking of console gesture-based controls, would Kinect even exist in its present form?”
Someone needs to look at the camera in a Kanye-like fashion during the next ask-an-engineer and say, “Microsoft doesn’t care about hack people” before cutting the camera.
you just made this soda go up my nose
Surprised nobody has mentioned the grand irony of Microsoft’s stance, particularly given that Microsoft hired the guy most famous for hacking the wiimote, Johnny Chung Lee, to work on Natal: http://aol.it/911ZTT
Begs the question “were it not for community hacking of console gesture-based controls, would Kinect even exist in its present form?”
Computer vision on this project is very similar with the one used in kinect, with infrared lights:
http://nuve.jmartinho.net