A report from WinRumors says Microsoft is preparing drivers and a SDK for developers to create software that lets Kinect motion sensor work with Windows-based PCs. Lance Whitney Contributing Writer ...

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 ...

Looks like a couple of different folks have found a way for Kinect owners to use the device on their PC. First up is the NUI Group, which are apparently working on an open source SDK and Windows ...

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 ...

As expected, the first open source drivers for the Microsoft Kinect that allow it to be used with a PC have been released. A developer by the name of Hector Martin is the author of the driver. Right ...

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 ...

We've been so wrapped up in Kinect hacks lately that we actually missed a Kinect non-hack that emerged last week. PrimeSense, who built the initial Project Natal reference hardware for Microsoft, has ...

There has been plenty of news about Microsoft's Kinect being hacked, well, now an open source kinect driver supporting the depth and RBG Camera has also been released by marcan42. Those of you ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhW-cvpkks&fs=1&hl=en_US] It is finished. Hector Martin just posted full driver for the Kinect that can support RGB input as ...

The competition for the first Open Source driver for the Kinect is heating up. [Marcan42] has released a driver that does video and depth. He was able to do this without an Xbox and you can see it in ...