Never Been So Happy About A Wire

A few weeks ago I was ramping up some of my projects that involved my Xbox Kinect.  The device has massive potential and instrumental in some of the projects I was going to do.  I owned an Xbox 360 with a Kinect so I already had the equipment I needed.  I needed to download the drivers and also the SDK for the device however I needed to initially plug it into my system. 

It wasn’t until I attempted to plug the Kinect into the PC that I noticed something, the opposite end of the Kinect (which looked like a regular USB) did not fit into any of the ports on my computer.  It did not take long to realize that the plug was proprietary- meaning that it was not a traditional USB but Microsoft’s own version where only their equipment can be used.

I was not happy, why couldn’t it just be a simple USB plug?  Frustrated, I was forced to track down a wire that worked and luckily I found one on Amazon for less than $10.  The Kinect was something that I needed to pull off some of the artificial intelligence projects I was doing so I had no choice but to purchase the wire.

Today the wire with connecting power supply finally arrived.  I was so excited because I could finally download the drivers and the SDK for the device.  This small setback was a huge inconvenience and finally that setback was over.  It was then I realized, holy crap, I am giddy over a wire.

Downloading SDK now….

With this wire now in my possession I can down work on the motion/video aspect of my home security, facial recognition, plus others.  Looks like this might be a late night.