UPDATED: 12-6-2010

Since the Kinect has been "free'd" you can find a driver in the github repository - currently the driver is under heavy construction {1}. There's also a Wiki {2}, a high frequency mailing list at google.groups {3} and a couple of weblogs dealing with the Kinect e.g., gilotopia.
The drive of all these guys (and prop. girls) is awesome (Thank you all)!

I like to add my two cents (for now)...How to compile libfreenect on Ubuntu 10.10:

At first, install some dependencies - these should be fine - If I'm missing something please let me know/comment. (Thank you anonymous ^^)

sudo apt-get install cmake libglut3-dev pkg-config build-essential libxmu-dev libxi-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev

Create a folder where you want to clone the repos and build the driver. NOTE: You don't need any root privileges, you can totally do this in your $home directory.

Here's a short post about upgrading your WiiMotes' IR camera sensivity. I'm using WiiMoteJ - the WiiMote Java API for accessing data (IR data, motion data, etc.). The underlying native library is called "libwiiuse.so" which has been implemented in C for linux and windows. I am pretty sure you'll find the same values in lib CWiid (another WiiMote lib). Get the wiiuse library src here: Wiiuse onSourceforge

Here's the problem: the WiiMote IR sensitivity can be scaled from 0-5. "0" as you can imagine, is the lowest possible sensivity, "5" as you might NOT expect is by far not the highest sens. According to wiibrew.org these are the default wiiuse register values for level 0 to 5.

02 00 00 71 01 00 64 00 fe fd 05 Wii level 1

02 00 00 71 01 00 96 00 b4 b3 04 Wii level 2

02 00 00 71 01 00 aa 00 64 63 03 Wii level 3

02 00 00 71 01 00 c8 00 36 35 03 Wii level 4

07 00 00 71 01 00 72 00 20 1f 03 Wii level 5

Needed this all the time, wanted to share it with you.

find ./ -type d -name ".svn" -exec rm -Rf {} \;

Cheersss!

This is the first demo video of my Master Project (Intelligent Systems | University of Bielefeld | Faculty of Technology). The video is meant to be self-explanatory, nevertheless there will we a commented version soon. This is just a test, mainly testing the video resolution. Have fun, I appreaciate comments on my work and the video of course

There is still a lot of work to do but seems to be kinda "cool" so far :)

Some more pictures of the project, click to enlarge. (Video see BELOW)

And here's the video: