The race to claim the bounty offered by Adafruit for open source drivers for Microsoft’s Kinect has been run and won. The winner is hacker Hector Martin whose achievement of producing drivers to pull ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite Microsoft’s claim that they have built a number of safeguards into the design of Kinect to prevent tampering with its design, open source drivers for Windows apparently have been developed and ...

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 ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhW-cvpkks&fs=1&hl=en_US] It is finished. Hector Martin just posted full driver for the Kinect that can support RGB input as ...

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 ...

DIY hardware company Adafruit Industries recently offered a $3,000 bounty to encourage the development of open source drivers for Microsoft’s Kinect motion control camera. Developer Hector Martin ...

Looks like a couple of different folks have found a way for Kinect owners to use the device on their PC. First up is the NUI Group, which are apparently working on an open source SDK and Windows ...

When word first reached Microsoft that the open-source community would hack the Kinect, the company's response was pretty heavy-handed: "Microsoft does not condone the modification of its products," a ...

The competition for the first Open Source driver for the Kinect is heating up. [Marcan42] has released a driver that does video and depth. He was able to do this without an Xbox and you can see it in ...