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Kinect Hacked, Adafruit Bounty Won
scharkalvin writes "Adafruit has announced a winner to their bounty for an open source driver for the MS Kinect. From the article: 'We have verified that it works and have a screenshot from another member in the hacking community (thanks qdot!) who was also able to use the code. Congrats to Hector! He's running all this on a Linux laptop (his code works with OpenGL) and doesn't even have an Xbox!'" We talked about Adafruit's bounty yesterday.
Wow he got a webcam to work on his laptop! Amazing!
Yeah, but its a linux laptop. I've never gotten a webcam to work on a linux laptop. I can't even get it to sleep when I close the lid...
The M$ PR department has issued a correction please replace "product tamperers" with "pedo-vandals w/ WMDs"
You're closing it wrong.
Oh, shoot, wrong product...
Just think.. your fav porn site can now see just how hard your spanking your monkey, and suggest videos based upon how much you enjoyed previous ones from that genre.
You are entitled to your own opinions, not your own facts.
what the fuck is wrong with Microsoft?
As an aside, I should preemptively mention that I know this is /. but this was a rhetorical question.
Once we have all three of these systems, it should not be all that hard to link them together and start actually doing useful things with robots in our homes. Even just the first two would make it possible useful cleaning and sentry robots.
We theoretically approach useful home robotics, and your first thought is cleaning? Followed by sentry duties? What about the ole in-out-in-out, man? Where in the hell are your priorities?
"Cleaning." I swear some people are just too happy to announce to the world "Hey, look at me! I have zero sense of imagination! Look how practical I am!"
Hey genius!
https://github.com/JoshBlake/OpenKinect