- Easy 3D Scanning for 3D Printing Mac & PC at Techshop or Online With Xbox Kinect: Made At TechShop. Do you have an Xbox kinect laying around? Well get ready because today's your lucky 3D printing Day! Goal: To Make a 3D scan of a person for easy printing at Techshop. I am going to demonstrate using a free version of Skanec.
- Nov 12, 2010 Theo Watson, the guy that hacked it, used the open source libfreenect tool to do the deed and he has a Mac port for other geeks interested in hacking the Kinect on Macs.
- Nov 12, 2010 Kinect Hacking Continues. On the one hand, it may be annoying to find people using Kinect on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows PCs instead of the Xbox 360. But if the Kinect.
If you want to get the Microsoft Kinect setup and working on your Mac using OS X 10.9 Mavericks, then you’ve come to the right place. Since posting the first tutorial, a number of new software updates have been released, so it’s a good idea to recap from the start.This tutorial will detail all the steps necessary to get the Kinect working in Mavericks, so buckle up and let’s get this. Nov 20, 2010 'Kinect was not actually hacked. Hacking would mean that someone got to our algorithms that sit inside of the Xbox and was able to actually use them.
Since its release November 4, 'hacking' Microsoft's Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 game consoles has become a popular Internet sport. Now, just a couple of weeks after saying that it would 'work closely with law enforcement' to keep the Kinect tamper-proof, Microsoft has apparently reversed its stance, claiming that the Kinect was left open to tinkerers on purpose.
Following a $3,000 bounty put up by the open source community for anyone able to create an open source driver for Kinect, Microsoft told CNET on November 4 that it 'does not condone the modification of its products.'
A similar bounty was put up by Google engineer Matt Cutts last week. The gamer community has found numerous alternative uses for Kinect already, including as a controller for Minority Report-style multitouch and the ability to capture 3D video.
Kinect Hacking
Initially, Microsoft was not pleased with the popularity of Kinect hacking. 'With Kinect, Microsoft built in numerous hardware and software safeguards designed to reduce the chances of product tampering,' the company said in a statement to CNET on the day of the device's U.S. launch. 'Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant.'
However, Microsoft appears to have changed its tune. On the November 19 broadcast of National Public Radio's Science Daily program, director of incubation for Xbox Alex Kipman said that the Kinect was left open 'by design.'
The full excerpt is below:
'Kinect was not actually hacked. Hacking would mean that someone got to our algorithms that sit inside of the Xbox and was able to actually use them. Which hasn't happened. Or, it means that you put a device between the sensor and the Xbox for means of cheating, which also has not happened. That's what we call hacking, and that's what we put a ton of work and effort in to make sure doesn't actually occur.
'What has happened is someone wrote a open source driver for PCs, which essentially opens the USB connection, which we didn't protect by design, and reads the inputs from the sensor.'
Kinect Hacking Machine
Kipman also said that fans 'hacking' Kinect would not result in a legal action. Fellow Microsoftie, Shannon Loftis, a studio manager at Microsoft Game Studios, said that she is 'excited to see that people are so inspired' to think about what they can create using the Kinect hardware.
[Via Adafruit]