In this article, Brian Peek describes his PDC 2009 project, an XNA game named MindBlaster which uses a Nintendo Wii Remote in conjunction with MindSet brain-wave sensing headset from Neurosky. IntroductionBack in July of 2009 I learned of Neurosky's MindSet device via Engadget.com.  The…

Live Geometry is an interactive geometry designer built using Silverlight. It can be used to visualize and solve geometry problems, and help make geometry lessons more fun and interactive for teachers and students. It's built on top of an open-source .NET dynamic geometry engine, which can power…

Do people visit your desk when you're at meetings?  Do they leave you messages for when you get back?  If you're like me, you end up losing those messages half the time.  Here's a fun screensaver program that let's people leave messages for you right on your desktop.…

Brian Jepson, from Make Magazine, along with Szymon Kobalczyk posted about their chance to play with the FEZ line of .NET-Powered microcontroller kits.  GHI Electronics makes them and can be found over at www.tinyclr.com.  The FEZ mini costs about $50 dollars.  Adding on sensors is…

Robocode just released a new version of their software which now allows you to use .Net coded robots!  Awesome job guys.  They have a post regarding their implementation and their wiki has a quick example to get you up and running and they also include API references for Robocode.  To…

Update 10/16/10: The application + source have been updated to work with Twitter's OAuth/xAuth authentication scheme.  If you have the old version installed, please upgrade at the download links below. In this article, Brian Peek will take you through his latest Coding4Fun application,…

Just posted the updated source code to TweetCraft 2.0.  Head over to http://tweetcraft.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets to check it out.

If you like twitter and World of Warcraft, check out the Coding4Fun project, TweetCraft.  Version 2.0 brings some new features and bug fixes. Bug fixes Fixed: Twitter connection and authentication issues Removed: The Windows pop-up messages whenever Twitter's service goes down. You can…

This is something I've wanted to see for a very long time.  A managed mp3 player with a bunch of visual playback features.  Ahura Mazda created the Saluse Media Kit for Silverlight and it is awesome!  There is a demo over…

Our own Brian Peek chats on how he fixed a leaky handle driver for the Acer 1420P (PDC build) laptop.  Brian used a some free tools to figure out why the one of the tablet's processes was growing at 10 handles second and what to do about it.  With the Process Explorer tool and IDA,…