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Over at CodePlex, XNACommunity (http://xnacommunity.codeplex.com/) is a project that has 5 games complete with source code.  They are Dungeons Sorrow, Rastaniav2ML, Ultra Air Hockey, Virtual Ninjas, and XNA Rock. Creators Club also has full blow games as well which can be found at…

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…

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…

Microsoft just released a Facebo ok client library to help make it easier for everyone to create some interesting applications.  The SDK is broken into a few core DLLs, each serving a core purpose.  You can download the SDK from Download the SDK. Facebook.dll: This is the main assembly…

The .NET Micro Framework (NETMF) team has a great example of using low cost, embedded computing to improve their biking experience. All the source code can be found at http://netmfbikecomputer.codeplex.com/ and just a reminder, the NETMF is 100% open source as well! Introduction Getting the…

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…

I got a webcam for doing conferencing at work and wanted to do some development with it.  I had the problem of the sample source code I would try out didn't work.  These were examples using WIA. THEN I found Mark Schmidt's awesome vista gadget using a webcam.  His example uses…

If you've ever had a WPF application and wanted a notify icon in your system tray, you've had to import the System.Windows bits.  This always seemed to me as a hack to get it but at least I could do.  Fear not anymore, Philipp Sumi has created a WPF NotifyIcon component! Features at a…

I came across this from Miguel de Icaza's twitter feed, Christopher Park designing an AI with c# and LINQ.  Currently it is a 4 part series, each is an interesting read into what exactly goes into an artificial intelligence system. Introduction Queries and Code Limitations Asymmetrical…

Pete Brown has created an example of accessing a scanner with WIA via WPF.  In the past we've chatted about going paperless with WIA and accessing a camera with it too, but Pete talks about how WIA the guts of it works and how to get  an application to leverage it.  To find out…