Here’s another “hairball” post about USB devices and drivers on Linux. I wish some expert would write the definitive “here’s how to reverse-engineer a USB device and write a new USB driver” guide. I am definitely not that expert.
If you want to post some JPEG pictures but you’re worried that they might have metadata like location embedded in them, here’s how to strip that data out. First, install exiftool using this command: sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl Then, go into the directory with the JPEG files
When the Kinect launched, Adafruit Industries ran a contest for the first person who released open-source code to extract video and depth from the Kinect. Adafruit also ended up donating to the EFF after the contest was over
I’m starting a contest for people that do cool things with a Kinect.
If you’re on Linux (say Ubuntu 10.04, also known as Lucid Lynx), you can switch between the developer (dev) and beta channels of Chrome like this: Switch from Beta to Dev : sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable Switch from Dev to Beta : sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta That’s easier for me than going back for the .deb file and doing something with it.