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> MS Kinect hacking is a good example here: users making the tool do things it wasn't intended to do my Microsoft. Based on your other examples, I don't you s
by esrauch 15y ago
> MS Kinect hacking is a good example here: users making the tool do things it wasn't intended to do my Microsoft.
Based on your other examples, I don't you should consider this hacking. None of the MS Kinect hacking has made it do anything that it wasn't actually intended to do.
"Kinect hacking" is akin to having a tv that only has composite input, and you figuring out a way to get HDMI input to composite. I guess it's slightly more of a gray area, but the Kinect's sole purpose is to output depth data to USB with the intent for it to be used with motion capture, and that is all that "hackers" use it for.
- sequoia 15y agoI guess so... my understanding was that the Kinect was produced exclusively to connect to the xbox and play xbox games. When people reverse engineered it in order to connect it to different things and do things other than play xbox games, that was a hack. On the other hand, my "definition" means that it would be technically impossible to hack with the Arduino because it's intended for hacking. :p So back to the drawing board :)