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Getting started with Cinder for Windows Store Apps
Rick Barraza will present a high level overview of the state of creative coding on Windows Store apps and then walk through setting up and working with the Cinder library in Visual Studio for creating amazing computational art.
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MissionControl - A Flexible API for Remote Device Control
In a race to optimize everything, developers often go to extremes to build software that performs routine tasks. MissionControl is a system that allows users to program a control center that stores interfaces with attached hardware sensors, allowing the users to control any other devices that can be activated via the underlying protocol. For demo purposes, the MissionControl build at this point is compatible with the Phidgets IR hybrid sensor.
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Philips Hue Lighting Controller
Philips recently introduced their Hue Connected Bulbs: an easy-to-use set of LED light bulbs and Wi-Fi connected bridge which allows you to dynamically change the color of your home lighting using an application. What's particularly cool is that the bridge has a web API which you can access to set the colors of each bulb with your own app. Lets learn how to create a Windows Phone application using their API model!
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Dynamic Lockscreen Changer
With the release of Windows Phone 8, a few new developer API endpoints were made available that allow third-party applications to change the device lockscreen image. In this article, I am establishing the infrastructure and building a mobile application that provides the ability to choose from a number of dynamic image sets, from which images can be selected and then cycled as lockscreen wallpapers.
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Panoramic Camera Head
The Pano Head is a rotating platform for a camera that mounts on a tripod and is controlled from your Windows Phone 8 device over Bluetooth. You can use it to take a series of pictures that you can stitch up with Photosynth.
Articles
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Getting started with Cinder for Windows Store AppsMay 14, 2013 at 3:20 PM
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What is different on Windows 8Legacy software written for Windows 7 and prior targeted the traditional Windows API, often referred to as Win32. They resulting apps would be a combination of an executable, assets and libraries. The Windows 8 operating system introduces a new type of application,… -
MissionControl - A Flexible API for Remote Device ControlMay 13, 2013 at 8:12 AM 5
In a race to optimize everything, developers often go to extremes to build software that performs routine tasks. MissionControl is a system that allows users to program a control center that stores interfaces with attached hardware sensors, allowing the users to control any other devices that can be… -
Philips Hue Lighting ControllerApr 08, 2013 at 8:17 AM 13
So Philips recently introduced their Hue Connected Bulbs: an easy-to-use set of LED light bulbs and Wi-Fi connected bridge which allows you to dynamically change the color of your home lighting using their iOS or Android app. What’s particularly cool is that the bridge has a web API which you can…
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Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, some PCL and your social world = Social Media Dashboard Sample2 hours ago 1
Speaking of building Windows 8 app's, here's the template of the week. Imagine you Social Media Dashboard SampleThe Social Media Dashboard sample (for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8) consumes various social feeds and displays them in your app. It is driven from a JSON configuration file so it is very… -
Andy and Okra is your Windows 8 App Store MVVM app building supercharger...2 days ago 0
Today's Modern Monday project by Andrew Wilkinson is one of those kinds of projects that makes me love developers. Imagine this... Building Windows 8 MVVM app... Gaa, don't like the available templates, but good enough to start with. hack, hack, hack. Building second app. Ahh, templates again...… -
Mouse with your mind...5 days ago 0
Recently on the Coding4Fun Kinect Gallery I highlighted a couple Kinect -> Mouse projects, Is that a mouse on your face? Or your face acting as a mouse? Both? FaceMouse, KinectMouse. And while I don't usually highlight commercial, non-source available projects I thought this pretty cool. But what…
