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. 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. Make sure there is no exposed wire that will cause a short.

twist up the black wires, but don't solder or heat shrink them just yet. Red -> red, green -> green and white -> white. Step 2: Solder and heat shrink the four coloured USB wires to their corresponding Kinect wires. Cut the Kinect and power supply close to the plug, but cut the USB with plenty of cable trailing out of the male plug. Step 1: Cut off the ends of the Kinect, the USB cable and the 12v power supply.

Kinect adapter for old xbox 360 to mac