Well, that was fast. Do-it-yourself electronics kit maker and hobby retailer Adafruit recently announced that a hacker had won the company’s Open Kinect Bounty. Spain-based hacker Hector Martin ...

In a statement to our sister site Gamespot, Microsoft has backed down from its legal threats against the Kinect Linux "hack" of Hector Martin. Martin will get $3,000 from Adafruit for developing the ...

Just a few hours ago a video surfaced on Twitter that showed the Microsoft Kinect sensor working on a PC running a Linux open source driver, just 3 hours after the European launch. The driver manages ...

SoftKinetic developed a 3D gesture recognition platform long before Microsoft released Kinect -- and it supports Linux as well as Windows. Despite the head start, the promised consumer gaming and ...

Makers, developers, and hobbyists who have a spare Microsoft Kinect gesture-based controller lying around may be interested in a new DIY human-following robot. This innovative project has been created ...