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Today's project Andrej Kyselica isn't complete yet (well not completely published), but it has so much potential, and a cool video, that I couldn't resist not highlighting it...

The Kinectinator

The Kinectinator is a Kinect-controlled turret. If a human walks in range of the Kinect, the Kinectinator starts...

Today's project is a deceptively simple project that's just fun, for the fun of it. I mean, who doesn't love a good console (as in command line console) game of...

Space Invaders

Project Description
The classic Space Invaders game written in C#.

**Space Invaders The Game **
The project represents entertaining...

Today's project by Tom Kerkhove provides a nice introduction and example of using the video from the Kinect in a cool way...

Tutorial – Kinect Television

Welcome to the very first Kinecting for Windows tutorial.

Introduction

The goal of this application is to create a television where you are in the picture!...

Today's Mobile Monday is a toolkit by Pedro Lamas that will help speed up your Windows Phone 7.x and 8 app development.

Yeah, I know it feels like I've been doing allot frameworks recently, but in my weird world, playing with new frameworks and seeing how they work is "fun". Why? They let you...

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

• [00:36] Windows Azure: Active Directory Release, New Backup Service + Web Site Monitoring and Log Improvements (Scott Guthrie)
• [02:13] Walkthrough #1: Adding Sign-On to Your Web Application Using Windows Azure AD...

Today's Hardware Friday takes back to one of my favorite areas (okay, yeah I have a bunch of those, but still), mind to PC interfaces. I can't wait for the day when I can ditch my keyboard, mouse, voice, touch, gesture devices and just think at my PC. Talk about a "natural interface!" Sure,...

Today's inspirational, just for fun, video shows that even IT guys can get into the Kinect world (well, kind of, not really, but still this is kind of fun

Just For Fun–KINECTing Orchestrator Runbooks

Hello Readers/Viewers!

As you can see, I am really trying hard to get both of my quotas met: blog posts...

Five months ago we highlighted the Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit, Getting started with C++/3D/WinStore Game Dev with the "Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit." Today we're going to highlight parts one and two of a three part series on developing a Windows 8 app with it...

Developing an app with...

Today's Kinect Project is one of the favorite kinds, controlling PowerPoint with gestures, via the Kinect. This one is different in that it's based on a PowerPoint add-in, so has a better connection (no pun intended) to the presentation (i.e. no need for SendKey tricks)

Creating a PowerPoint add-in that...

Today's Mobile & Modern Monday project will help you built NFC (Near Field Communication) based Windows Phone 8 app's. Imagine you want to create the next cool NFC app, an app that connects two devices. But you only have one device! How are you going to test your app?

What you need is a NFC emulator/simulator...