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This week on Channel 9, Mark and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including;

• [01:07] Introducing a new Windows Dev Center experience, Windows Dev Center
• [02:25] Windows 8.1 at //build (Windows Keeps Getting Better) (Brandon LeBlanc)
• [03:25] Channel 9 Highlight: Programming Windows with Charles...

While I don't usually highlight stuff you have to pay for (though they do offer a great free trial), this is the first course of this nature at pluralsight and since it covers our favorite hardware device, well, I can make an exception this time.

New course: Building a Real Application with Kinect

John...

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 if...

As promised on Tuesday, here's this week's second project by David Renton, this time with him showing off (with code) how to do a "green screen" without a green screen...

Kinect No Need 4 Green – The Green Screen without a Green Screen

This little piece of software allows you to produce easily,...

Today's inspirational video comes to us via the team at Second Story where they show off some of the work they are doing with using two Kinects at the same time...

Lose your Occlusion

Depth-sensing cameras like the Kinect give us the opportunity to mix physical environments and virtual environments, creating...

I don't normally blog about projects that don't have source, but this project from Dr. Dave is just cool so I'm making an exception. Plus since it has an extensibility model, I guess that makes it code'able? Kind of? Anyway, it's cool and it's fun...

What?

NUIverse

NUIverse is an application, written to...

Friend of the Gallery, David Renton, is back, this week with two different updates and projects.

Today...

Kinect Magic Cursor version 1.7 with Gesture support

I am releasing a new version of Kinect Magic Cursor which works much like the last version except it now uses gestures to simulate the left mouse...

Todays' project by Christer Kaitila is a kit that will help you quickly and easily build Windows 8 Platform games. Almost painfully easy to create games... If you've ever wanted to create your own platform game, and you've got a weekend, this kit is just for you...

Windows 8 Platformer Game Starter Kit...

This week on Channel 9, Brian and Dan discuss the week's top developer news, including;

• [00:10] 100 million licenses, 250 million Store app downloads, 400 million active Outlook accounts
• [00:56] Build will release a public preview of “Windows Blue”
• [01:36] Visual Studio 2012.3 (Update 3) “go-live” CTP...

It's time for a little hardware hacking (in a good sense). No plug and play here, we're talking breadboards, wires, Arduino and some coding

Okay, maybe this isn't "hacking" nor all the hardcore [at all] but for a non-circuit guy like me, it is...

Arduino Fun – Door Entry Alarm

Physical computing...