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If you do so, you'll need to add in a switch couple of switches at the junctions between the USB's and Xbox's green and white wires. If you want to continue using it with an Xbox, you can splice the wires in without cutting of the Xbox plug. Step 5: Follow the other instructable on this site, to make use of your new equipment! OPTIONAL: This will make the Kinect work on a computer, but it will be useless with an Xbox now. Maybe yours already is, but my job was disgustingly messy, and I needed to cover it up. Step 4: Heat shrink the whole bunch to make it neat. This power supply AC adapter with USB connector which specially designed to connect your kinect sensor to your Xbox 360 console, provides power and connectivity to make sure you can continue using your Kinect anywhere, anytime. Now you can heat shrink it (or try to, with its 3-way junction). Step 3: Solder the brown Kinect wire to the 12v adapter positive, and the 12v adapter negative to the Kinect/USB black. I have attached I wiring diagram drawn by Ttunerboy on youtube.
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Make sure there is no exposed wire that will cause a short. Cut the Kinect and power supply close to the plug, but cut the USB with plenty of cable trailing out of the male plug. twist up the black wires, but don't solder or heat shrink them just yet. Step 1: Cut off the ends of the Kinect, the USB cable and the 12v power supply. With the Original Xbox 360, you simply plug the. In your Kinect for Xbox 360 packaging you will find a power cord/USB adapter cable. Red -> red, green -> green and white -> white. If you have an Original Xbox 360, you will have one extra step. Step 2: Solder and heat shrink the four coloured USB wires to their corresponding Kinect wires. Step 1: Cut off the ends of the Kinect, the USB cable and the 12v power supply.