Adafruit Industries, leaders in open-source hardware development, have offered $1,000 to the first person or team to create an open-source driver for Microsoft's new Kinect motion control system. The ...

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 ...

It looks like Microsoft is working on an official SDK and also official Kinect drivers for Windows according to a recent report. We heard at CES from Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer that Microsoft would ...

Since the launch of Microsoft's peripheral, Kinect, it's been flying off the shelves. And while casual gamers are enjoying the device, it's also been getting a lot of attention from the types that ...

A hacker won a contest on Wednesday to be the first person to successfully create an open-source driver for Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensitive controller. Last week, open-source hardware developers ...

Just three hours after the European launch, Hector Martin has already hacked Microsoft’s new Kinect motion system and enabled it to run under Linux open-source drivers with support for RGB input as ...

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 ...