Kinect V2 conversion

I have bought a used Kinect V2 (the Xbox One version) and converted it for PC usage. This eliminates the need of an overly expensive kinect-to-USB adapter cable. The kinect itself uses a modified version of a USB B 3.0 plug. The only modification is that it also carries the 12V required to run the sensors.
And you can actually feed the 12V through the extra pin directly and use a normal USB B 3.0 cable for your PC to connect. I won’t go over the process in Detail, but it is quite easy to do anyway:
Step 1 Open the Kinect up (you need to peel off some glued on stickers that cover the screws on the bottom)

Step 2 Solder a power cable to the respective Pin and Ground.
Step 3 Close it back up.
After this you just need a 12V 3A power supply and connect that to the soldered on connection. The rest is a thing of installing the kinect sdk on the PC for it to recognize the kinect correctly.
For this I followed several tutorials to make sure I make the correct steps.

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