Step 1: Cut off the ends of the Kinect, the USB cable and the 12v power supply. Cut the Kinect and power supply close to the plug, but cut the USB with plenty of cable trailing out of the male plug. Step 2: Solder and heat shrink the four coloured USB wires to their corresponding Kinect wires. Red - red, green - green and white - white. Twist up the black wires, but don't solder or heat. Nov 11, 2010 Here's my proof-of-concept HD video of using a hacked Kinect camera for multitouch-like interaction. Written using libfreenect by marcan42 and libTISCH ( htt. Kinect hacks 112 Articles. New Kinect Sensor Switch Focus From Gamers To Developers. February 26, 2019 by Roger Cheng 31 Comments. Microsoft’s Kinect may not have found success as a gaming.
Since its release November 4, 'hacking' Microsoft's Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 game consoles has become a popular Internet sport. Now, just a couple of weeks after saying that it would 'work closely with law enforcement' to keep the Kinect tamper-proof, Microsoft has apparently reversed its stance, claiming that the Kinect was left open to tinkerers on purpose.
Following a $3,000 bounty put up by the open source community for anyone able to create an open source driver for Kinect, Microsoft told CNET on November 4 that it 'does not condone the modification of its products.'
A similar bounty was put up by Google engineer Matt Cutts last week. The gamer community has found numerous alternative uses for Kinect already, including as a controller for Minority Report-style multitouch and the ability to capture 3D video.
Kinect Hacking
Initially, Microsoft was not pleased with the popularity of Kinect hacking. 'With Kinect, Microsoft built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the chances of product tampering,' the company said in a statement to CNET on the day of the device's U.S. launch. 'Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant.'
Kinect Hacking Machine
However, Microsoft appears to have changed its tune. On the November 19 broadcast of National Public Radio's Science Daily program, director of incubation for Xbox Alex Kipman said that the Kinect was left open 'by design.'
The full excerpt is below:
'Kinect was not actually hacked. Hacking would mean that someone got to our algorithms that sit inside of the Xbox and was able to actually use them. Which hasn't happened. Or, it means that you put a device between the sensor and the Xbox for means of cheating, which also has not happened. That's what we call hacking, and that's what we put a ton of work and effort in to make sure doesn't actually occur.
'What has happened is someone wrote a open source driver for PCs, which essentially opens the USB connection, which we didn't protect by design, and reads the inputs from the sensor.'
Kipman also said that fans 'hacking' Kinect would not result in a legal action. Fellow Microsoftie, Shannon Loftis, a studio manager at Microsoft Game Studios, said that she is 'excited to see that people are so inspired' to think about what they can create using the Kinect hardware.
[Via Adafruit]