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Well ... That depends on how you want to define the value, I guess. For Adafruit Industries, who I only know of as being a small-scale electronics/microcontroll
by unwind 16y ago
Well ... That depends on how you want to define the value, I guess. For Adafruit Industries, who I only know of as being a small-scale electronics/microcontroller DIY/hobbyist retailer, I think $2000 is probably a sizable chunk of money.
It's not as if they stand to earn any of it back, as the requirement is for an open source solution, published in public view and fully documented. Adafruit probably don't happen to have a 100% compatible clone of the Kinect hardware that they can launch as soon as drivers are available, heh.
- rbanffy 16y agoOTOH, having available drivers is very handy if you want to build a plug-compatible hardware replacement. You would need that and an army of lawyers...
- daeken 16y agoI don't think it's as easy as build the hardware and make it speak the language. The iFixIt teardown of the Kinect shows some beefy hardware -- the most interesting piece to me being the 512MB DDR2 it has onboard. This says to me that they're doing considerable processing on the device side, rather than putting it all on the Xbox. If that's the case, it'd be a considerable effort to replicate it. Edit: 512Mbit, not 512MB. Meaning it's highly likely that it's a fairly dumb device.