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Xbox One Kinect teardown
Hot on the coattails of our recent teardown of the Xbox One comes America's favorite surveillance system — the second-generation Kinect! Good news, tin-hat wearers: the Kinect DOES NOT have any NSA-grade hardware inside.
Instead, we found tons of interesting IR/camera technology, including one "regular" camera, one IR camera, and three IR emitters. The overall internal design is less convoluted than the original, allowing folks to replace tidbits if needed — but not much can be replaced, and you'll have to void your warranty to gain entry. Either way, the second-generation Kinect earned a respectable, if not stellar, 6 out of 10 repairability score.
Teardown highlights:
We unroot — and quickly dispatch — two long and two short T10 Security Torx screws lurking beneath the tamper-evident sticker.
A fan lurks inside, and requires minimal disassembly. The 5 volt DC fan is manufactured by Nidec and is labeled as U40R05MS1A7-57A07A.
Microsoft seems to have taken the old triclops in for some plastic surgery; this year's model has moved the IR projector, making for a more human-esque two-eyed robot.
Some ICs that we found residing on the main board:
- Microsoft X871141-001 — Per our honored cohorts at Chipworks, this "replaces the Prime Sense chip used in the first Kinect. By the look of the font and package codes it's from STMicroelectronics."
- Samsung K4B1G1646G 1 Gb (128 MB) DDR3 SDRAM
- TI MV339I Low-Voltage Comparator
- Intersil 583 02DRTZ H328CP
- NB3L 14S RZB