Adafruit, which laid a $3,000 bounty for the first open source driver for the Kinect, has declared a winner. âHectorâ delivered the goods, verified as workable by a third party in the hacking community.
https://lastchance.cc/hack-kinect-win-2000-452572247%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Writes Hector: âHereâs my take on the Kinect driver. Supports depth and RGB images and displays them on an OpenGL window. Itâs very hacky right now but it does prove the concept :)â
Adafruit also said itâs using the bounty claim occasion to donate another $2,000 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. âThey defend our digital rights, our right to hack, reverse engineer and do things like this project,â Adafruit wrote.
You may recall Microsoft vowed to ââwork closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant.â Adafruit made the EFF donation to recognize its advocacy for tinkerers, programmers and, yes, hackers to perform such reverse engineering.
WE HAVE A WINNER â Open Kinect driver(s) released â Winner will use $3k for more hacking â PLUS an additional $2k goes to the EFF! [Adafruit, thanks Ryan C]
