Features:

• Tracks relative position
• Measures rotational angle and speed
• Detects contact from any direction
• Measures tilt and acceleration
• Ultra low bias drift of about 10 degrees per hour

All the details, and the chance to buy, can be found on the CruizCore XG1300L website.

The Kinect for Windows SDK beta is a programming toolkit for application developers. It enables the academic and enthusiast communities easy access to the capabilities offered by the Microsoft Kinect device connected to computers running the Windows 7 operating system.

Here is a sample Demo video":

The Kinect for Windows SDK beta includes drivers, rich APIs for raw sensor streams and human motion tracking, installation documents, and resource materials. It provides Kinect capabilities to developers who build applications with C++, C#, or Visual Basic by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

This SDK includes the following features:

• Raw sensor streams

  Access to raw data streams from the depth sensor, color camera sensor, and four-element microphone array enables developers to build upon the low-level streams that are generated by the Kinect sensor.

• Skeletal tracking

  The capability to track the skeleton image of one or two people moving within the Kinect field of view make it easy to create gesture-driven applications.

• Advanced audio capabilities

  Audio processing capabilities include sophisticated acoustic noise suppression and echo cancellation, beam formation to identify the current sound source, and integration with the Windows speech recognition API.

• Sample code and documentation

  The SDK includes more than 100 pages of technical documentation. In addition to built-in help files, the documentation includes detailed walkthroughs for most samples provided with the SDK.

• Easy installation

  The SDK installs quickly, requires no complex configuration, and the complete installer size is less than 100 MB. Developers can get up and running in just a few minutes with a standard standalone Kinect sensor unit (widely available at retail outlets).

Download:  Kinect SDK for Windows

Xander has one of the best collection of links for the Kinect SDK I’ve seen.    Kinect SDK is Finally Here!

This firmware requires use of the .NET Micro Framework v4.2 Beta 1 SDK. Users must completely erase and reflash their Netduino Pluses to use this firmware.

WARNING: This firmware is pre-release firmware. It may temporarily cause your Netduino to cease functioning properly. If this firmware does not work for you, you will likely need to erase your Netduino completely and re-flash the production v4.1.0.6 bootloader using Atmel SAM-BA tools (on a 32-bit Windows installation) and the production v4.1.0.6 firmware using MFDeploy.

NOTE: This beta firmware must be used with a beta version of the Microsoft .NET Micro Framework SDK.

If you’re an early adopter and would like to help us test and refine these new features, this beta release may be for you.

This firmware includes the following updates:

1. Visual Basic support (including Visual Basic Express 2010)
2. StringBuilder support
3. Extension method support
4. Dozens of bugfixes

More details, download link and discussion can be found here:   Version: 4.2.0 BETA 1 (version 4.2.0.0 b1)