Update at 4:03 p.m. PT: This story has been modified with response from Microsoft. The first person who figures out how to build an open-source driver for Microsoft's much-hyped new Kinect motion ...

New York-based Adafruit Industries really wants to get its hands on open-source drivers for Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 peripheral, Kinect. So much so that the firm is offering a handsome bounty for the ...

Open-source hardware company Adafruit has declared open season on Microsoft's Kinect, offering a $1000 bounty to anyone who can write and release open-source drivers for the camera. Kinect, released ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Last week hardware company Adafruit Industries out out a $3000 dollar bounty for the first person ...

Who knew Kinect could work just as well snapped into a regular PC as an Xbox 360? Hector Martin, that’s who. Martin took up a challenge issued by Adafruit Industries to uncork Kinect’s mysterious ...

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 ...