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A few years ago, Brian Peek, created a light sequencing application phidgets to animate your holiday cheer and Don, a coding4fun reader, leveraged it to animate some lights of his own for this year! Awesome job Don and thanks for telling us about it!  Update:  Don has shared his sequence…

A NESL is a set of libraries for Silverlight developers that allow them to access some really cool features of Windows 7 from their Silverlight applications. Take advantage of sensors like accelerometers, light sensors, compasses, GPS etc. Access content from connected portable devices like…

We have just launched an all new series over on Channel9 that teaches beginning developers with little programming experience how to develop applications for Windows Phone 7.  This series assumes that they have absolutely no knowledge of C#, Silverlight, or mobile development.  In just…

  What has Coding4Fun been up to for the past few weeks?  We've been creating a bunch of neat, free, open source applications for Windows Phone 7!  hey range from simple to complex and each shows off how to do an interesting concept with the phone. Our current released…

Users of Brian Peek’s TweeVo application have obviously noticed that the application hasn’t been working since early September.  Twitter forced all applications to use the OAuth authentication scheme, and now TweeVo has been updated to work with this new requirement.  You can download…

The guys over at VisitMix created a new tool that converts Adobe Illustrator files to HTML5 canvas elements that can be rendered to any browser that supports the canvas element like IE9.  They even have a Windows and OS X version of the tool.  Find out more at…

Trossen Robotics has a pretty awesome RFID kit with a RedBee RFID reader by Robotic Connections.  Here are a few specs from the reader. Supports all EM41xx family 125 kHz RFID tags USB, XBee, and TTL Serial communication Serial Communication Protocol and Shared Serial Devices Protocol…

David Rousset created a 4 part write up on explaining a demo built around Silverlight 4, Windows Azure and XNA on Windows Phone 7: Showing the final result in action as well as the SL4 application to play with Silverlight 4 XNA Platformer Level Editor for Windows Phone 7: overview (1/4) Details…

There is a new .NET Micro Framework board that is 100% open source now.  The netduino from Secret Labs can leverage the arduino shields!  Their projects page, http://www.netduino.com/projects/, has a few projects like how to get a blinking LED to work and read data from a color sensor…

Friend of Coding4Fun, René Schulte, has an full write-up on how to do some simple drawing, loading, and saving with Windows Phone 7.  René even used multi-touch as well! He leverages the WriteableBitmapEx class that extends out the WriteableBitmap Silverlight class. To do a PhotoChooser,…