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 ...

Let the reverse-engineering begin! Adafruit Industries is offering a thousand smackers for whoever can come up with an open-source driver for the Kinect hardware. They think that a non-Microsoft ...

Open-source hardware company Adafruit has declared open season on Microsoft's Kinect, offering a $1000 bounty to anyone who can write and release open-source drivers for the camera. Kinect, released ...

Who knew Kinect could work just as well snapped into a regular PC as an Xbox 360? Hector Martin, that’s who. Martin took up a challenge issued by Adafruit Industries to uncork Kinect’s mysterious ...

Microsoft locked Kinect Technology to stop hackers from hacking into the system and making it available publicly. But, this hasn’t stopped Hector Martin, the guy who just hacked Microsoft Kinect and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Last week hardware company Adafruit Industries out out a $3000 dollar bounty for the first person ...

A report from WinRumors says Microsoft is preparing drivers and a SDK for developers to create software that lets Kinect motion sensor work with Windows-based PCs. Lance Whitney Contributing Writer ...

The NUI Group posted its Kinect motion controller hacking results first, and is now working on an SDK and Windows drivers to enable all the capabilities of the peripheral. That will all be released as ...

Update at 4:03 p.m. PT: This story has been modified with response from Microsoft. The first person who figures out how to build an open-source driver for Microsoft's much-hyped new Kinect motion ...