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Feel like the overpriced PC adapter really killed off what could have been a thriving scene for the second Kinect. Amazing piece of tech for its time. If you h
by forgotacc240419 2y ago
Feel like the overpriced PC adapter really killed off what could have been a thriving scene for the second Kinect. Amazing piece of tech for its time.
If you have a semi decent soldering iron it's very easy to make a DIY pc adapter btw. The 36w power requirement is very easily managed now with most GaN chargers too (12v3a).
- ramses0 2y agoI chased a Kinect v2 for PC, but the driver story on linux isn't great (since it never hit that broad distribution). Well, that was a few years ago, it may have improved since then.
- sleepybrett 2y agohttps://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect2 https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect2
- ramses0 2y agoYep. Last commit 5 years ago, not included by default on distro's or kernels, build-from-source-and-hope... ;-) The kinect1 appears to be "OOTB-ish" at least on ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libfreenect https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libfreenect ...so just an advisory that for casual purposes a Kinect1 is going to be better than a Kinect2.
- sleepybrett 2y agosure if you like 90s webcam resolutions I guess.