Hacker won Open-Source Kinect driver Contest

Last Week, Adafruit Industries had launched a contest prize of $2000 to $3000 for anyone who can figure out how to decouple the hot new device from Microsoft's gaming machine.

And a Hacker named Hector has created the driver.
See the following video:

[video=youtube;rKhW-cvpkks]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhW-cvpkks&feature=player_embedded[/video]


Adafruit gave him a prize amount of $3000. 😀

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  • Sahithi Pallavi
    Sahithi Pallavi
    Great! Hector!

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