Brian Peek
Brian Peek is a Senior Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, working on the Channel 9 team. Previously a Microsoft MVP in the C# discipline, he has authored numerous articles and projects for the Coding4Fun website and Microsoft conferences. Brian specializes in software development using a variety of Microsoft technologies and platforms. He is also well-versed in hardware projects, graphics and game development. Additionally, he has co-authored the book "Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More" published by O'Reilly, and the book "Debugging ASP.NET" published by New Riders. Brian speaks at conferences around the country and can be reached on Twitter at @BrianPeek or via his blog at http://www.brianpeek.com/ .
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Project Detroit: Lighting SystemIn this article, we give a detailed look into the external lighting system of Project Detroit, the Microsoft-West Coast Custom Mustang creation. If you're not already familiar with this project, you can find more information here.
Overview
The external lighting system for Project Detroit is run on a w...
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Project Detroit: An OverviewIn this article, we will give an overview of the technical side of Project Detroit, the Microsoft-West Coast Custom Mustang creation. If you're not already familiar with this project, you can find more information here.
Key Design Decisions
It’s important to keep in mind that this car was built ...
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Channel9/Coding4Fun On Discovery’s Inside West Coast Customs!Earlier this year at Build, we announced a partnership between the Channel 9/Coding4Fun team and Ryan Friedlinghaus, world famous and award winning automotive designer based in Corona, California and star of the Discovery Channel's Velocity network reality TV series, Inside West Coast Customs. ...
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Updates to the Coding4Fun Team!Dear friends,
As we start the new year, it's a great time to step back and review where we want to go with Coding4Fun, what kind of content we're passionate about, and most importantly, what we can do to inspire and enable everyone to get busy coding for fun themselves.
Our Team
We've expanded our team...
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MJPEG DecoderLast year the Coding4Fun/Channel 9 guys asked me to work on a few things for MIX10. One of these items was a way to output a webcam stream to Windows Phone 7 for use with Clint's t-shirt cannon project you may have read about. I figured the easiest way to accomplish this was by using a ...
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Jeopardy!For Visual Studio Live 2010 in Redmond, I was asked to help plan the attendee event for the conference. We decided to recreate the game show Jeopardy and allow 3 teams of 3 people to play: Microsoft Employees vs. Visual Studio Live Speakers vs. Visual Studio Live Attendees. To pull this...
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The Coding4Fun Show: Natural User Interfaces with Josh BlakeIn this episode of the Coding4Fun Show, Brian Peek chats with Josh Blake about Natural User Interfaces and Multitouch programming with .NET. Josh has written a multitouch PowerPoint replacement called NaturalShow, which was demonstrated during his NUI session at MIX10. Watch and lear... -
MindBlasterIn 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.
Introduction
Back in July of 2009 I learned of Neurosky's MindSet device via Engadget.com. The MindSet...
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TweeVo: Tweet What Your TiVo is RecordingUpdate 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, Twee...
| Forum | Thread | Replies | Latest activity |
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| Coffeehouse | Project Natal + Windows | 62 | Jun 06, 2009 at 4:04 PM |
| The Sandbox | Blu-ray/DVD Comparison Utility | 1 | Mar 28, 2009 at 12:01 PM |
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TWC9: Kinect SDK is coming, New VS Power Tools, & Profanities by programming language
Feb 26, 2011 at 8:38 AMI was hoping you were going to start crying and screaming, "LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!" at some point.
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Feb 23, 2011 at 8:51 AM@Bojan: Well, if you're constantly reading the stream of 20 cameras simultaneously, there's a chance it could be putting undue load on the server. It has never been tested in that kind of environment. I wouldn't think you'd crush the server, but if each stream is taking 2-3% of CPU to read/decode, make it times 20 and you're taking a decent toll on the server.
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Feb 22, 2011 at 11:19 PM@Bojan: what kind of load are you seeing and what version of the decoder are you using? (wpf, xna, etc.) In my testing here, my test apps are cranking away at a 640x480 stream at 30fps and I'm only seeing 5-6% CPU at most, typically less.
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Feb 11, 2011 at 12:41 PMMJPEG Decoder
Feb 11, 2011 at 10:07 AM@LukePuplett: You can only run this OOB becuase of the crossdomain.xml policy goodness in Silverlight. The cameras don't have this file on their internal webserver, so browser-based Silverlight won't work at all. That said, even OOB apps can't modify the User-Agent header either via the Headers collection or the UserAgent property.
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Feb 10, 2011 at 1:12 PM@_ivan: I have tested with the Cisco WVC210, TRENDnet IP110W, and a very old no-name brand camera. Practically any IP/network camera (i.e. not a USB webcam) should output MJPEG and work with this. I don't think I've seen an IP cam without some kind of MJPEG support, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
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Feb 10, 2011 at 1:10 PM@stuat: I started to write a MediaStreamSource implementation but didn't bother to finish. You should be able to shove this into a MediaStreamSource without too much issue, though.
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Feb 10, 2011 at 8:30 AM@LukePuplett:For your scenario, I'd recommend any of the cameras manufactured by Pervsys.
TWC9: Windows Phone 7 Dev Tools Refresh, Messenger Wave 4 Preview
May 03, 2010 at 2:47 AMI know he can get the job, but can he do the job?
TWC9: MIX10, Tweevo, Silverlight Augmented Reality, testing
Feb 27, 2010 at 9:47 PMIt's not based solely on taste. For a while, it thought I loved Univision and Spanish television. Though, El Sabado Gigante is pretty great.
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