No damage can occur from plugging the Kinect in to your computer, but unless you have the necessary drivers installed, you won't be able to do much.
Please visit OpenNI for information about an open source Kinect platform.
The book Making Things See is a very good resource for getting started with hacking the Kinect.
I personally have been able to write a few small programs to use the functionality of the Kinect to perform other tasks on the computer.
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Is this the same Kinect that you had asked previously about? the one with the burned out chip?
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yea, my friend give it to someone to fix it and still no answer
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iam just asking to sure iam right or wrong, i mean what happened to kinect because of me or because of the man who i bought from him the kinect
second i saw videos on youtube about hacking kinect but iam still not sure if that real or fake ???
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i have another question
is the tools or gears in kinect for xbox 360 is same in kinect for windows and the different is the word on kinect (xbox 360, kinect) ????
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