Sultans of solder [Hands On]

Abstract

It's a Tuesday night in Philadelphia-hacker time. A small group of do-it-yourself engineers and hipster geeks gather in a cluttered space downtown. One holds a Kinect, the motion-sensing controller for Microsoft's Xbox 360 system. But he's not playing a video game. He's about to take the Kinect apart to see if he can get it to work with a shoot-'em-up space game for which it wasn't intended.