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Strong Contender Already For Adafruit's Kinect Challenge
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.
I'm sorry, I must have missed the part in my post where I said that the electronics community were a bunch of third-rate geeks or even criticised the Arduino. I criticised an electronics starter kit builder for refusing to take on (or sponsor) the more difficult challenge of building something similar to Kinect and instead offering an attention-whoring bounty to someone who can write a driver for someone else's. IOW, they can build their own damn hardware.
If you're going to call yourself "Lady Ada" you'd better be able to justify it. Despite my mathematical training I don't go around calling myself Karl Friedrich Gauss partly because I'm not him and partly because I don't deserve it.