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David Renton, Friend of the Coding4Fun Kinect Gallery, has expanded his efforts to showing off the power of, and helping us learn, TouchDevelop.

TouchDevelop has been highlighted before, Develop for Windows Phone, with Windows Phone... TouchDevelop, yet this time, David's hours of videos and pages of...

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

• [00:42] Announcing the Release of WebMatrix 3
• [01:13] Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET (Scott Guthrie)
• [02:56] Windows Azure: Improvements to Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services...

Well it's Solar Time again! Yep, it's been like, what, days since I've done a solar or energy related project? Well enough of that! Today's Hardware Friday by Graham Ross might seem simple, but is one that I think you can adapt for anything number of cool hardware projects...

Solar Tracker

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Today's project, the second with week from Tom, takes the facial detection feature of the Kinect and Kinect for Windows SDK and pushes it farther than I think I've seen before, turning your face and facial expressions into a mouse.

Use your face as mouse control with Kinect

Replace your mouse with your...

Today's "I don't know what to call it" Wednesday project is one that's just a little different, not a game or anything, but something I've not seen mentioned too much recently.

Visual Studio has these cool things to help you in your debugging, called Visualizers. They help you see beyond the...

Today's binary only project provides another example of how you can mesh the Kinect into your mouse world...

Use your hand instead a mouse (with Kinect for Windows)

Within an university programming project we tried out several methods to control the mouse cursor with Kinect for Windows. One of the results...

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

• [00:33] XBox Event May 21, 10AM PDT
• [01:10] Windows AzureConf 2013
• [02:07] Introducing: Code Digger, an extension for VS2012 (Nikolai Tillmann )
• [03:06] TypeScript Announcing 0.9 early previews (Jonathan Turner)
• [04:25]...

Today's Modern Monday project is by Petri Wilhelmsen and takes you by the hand and walks you through creating a new Windows Store App game that leverages Azure

Game Starterkit for Windows 8 with leaderboard in Windows Azure

This Game Starter Kit for Windows 8 contains what you need to get started with...

Today's Hardware Friday is about one of our favorite hardware things, the .NET Gadgeteer and its updated Code release...

.NET Gadgeteer Core 2.42.700

The .NET Gadgeteer Core installer includes the core libraries and end user project templates for Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer. This is a prerequisite for end...

Today's inspirational project shows that the future might not be so far away...

Frog Makes Star Trek’s Voice-Controlled Computers A Reality

Those are iconic words to any Star Trek fan--it’s the preferred drink of Captain Picard, as ordered from the Enterprise’s always-listening computer system. They also...