Nov 08

Kinect Hacker Won’t Share, Even for Money

Posted in: Hacks, Mods and DIY, kinect, Microsoft, Today's Chili

Over the weekend, a member of the NUI Group hacked the new Xbox Kinect to run on Windows 7, posting proof-of-concept videos, but not the code.

“As a research project, I took a weekend challenge of getting this awesome new Xbox Kinect device to work on Windows,” writes Alex P, who previously hacked the PS3 Eye camera to run on Windows. “Here are the first tests of controlling the Kinect NUI Motor and reading the Accelerometer data from a PC. Outlook looks good for other sensors (ie cameras and microphones) of the device.”

A day later, he posted the following video of the Windows-controlled Kinect with on-screen output from its depth and color sensors:

Open-source hardware company Adafruit has offered a bounty for open-source Kinect drivers, upping the reward to $2000 after Microsoft threatened legal action against anyone opening up their peripheral.

Engadget reports that Alex P isn’t interested in the reward, preferring to use it with Code Laboratories’s $150 video suite CL Studio Live.

DIYers, robots and children all hoping to leverage the Kinect for educational use did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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