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Strong Contender Already For Adafruit's Kinect Challenge

Posted by Soulskill on from the wave-your-hands-in-the-air dept.

sammyF70 writes "Adafruit's bounty on open source drivers for Microsoft's Kinect may have been already won. Someone called 'KinectMan2' has posted videos of Kinect's output as seen on Windows 7 to YouTube. That was fast. Hopefully Linux drivers are coming soon." A few more details are available on a forum post the man made. Adafruit said the bounty could be his if he posts the source code, and they also upped the reward to $3,000 in response to another silly statement from Microsoft.

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  1. MS can make Adafruit go broke very easily by michelcolman · · Score: 1, Funny

    All they have to do, is keep sending these messages, pushing the bounty up higher and higher until it bankrupts Adafruit. (And maybe then release their own driver and cash in on the bounty, or are they excluded from the contest?)