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I'm not sure if this is a awesome Hardware Friday most, a Mobile Monday post, a Modern Monday post or a Wild Wednesday post. Well, actually I think it's all four! BallControl - an open source Sphero C# controller - WP7, MonoDroid and hopefully MonoTouch (and WinRT?)Meet my latest open source project…

Today's inspirational videos show Garry Newman's progress in connecting the Kinect to his Garry's Mod. Kinect and the GModI'm having way too much fun with the Kinect and GMod. Here's some answers to common questions. Is this on PC? Is Garry's Mod coming out for xbox? Yes it's on PC - and no Garry's…

Today's inspiration video is another example of performance art and music and the Kinect. ETHNO TEKH | live at Enig'matik Vibrations [Melb,Aus] 2012This is real-time, jamming and layering with Kinect-controlled audio/visual instruments, and not a pre-scripted show. 1:34 - "Tekhnology"3:10…

Today's project is a kind that seems to very popular with the Kinect, turning movement into music... My Theremin for 2 Persons Using KinectInvented by the Russian professor Leon Theremin, the original theremin was one of the first electronic instruments. The controlling section consisted of two…

Today's Mobile Monday project is a Windows Phone 8 SDK Sample project that shows off something I've not seen highlighted too often, how you can build in voice and speech into your Windows Phone 8 app's. Alarm Clock with voice Commands SampleThis sample demonstrates how to manage an alarm by using…

Do you Kinect? Do you think the Kinect for Windows is beyond awesome? Has it helped you change your world or the world around you? Have some of the projects or inspirational posts you've seen here touched your heart or mind? Now's you're chance to let everyone know the cool that is the Kinect for…

Today's commercial Kinect product shows off some of the amazing things that are just now becoming available for the Kinect. Watch this: Kinect-powered motion capture mimics your facial movements in real timeFaceshift is a new motion capture utility that does an impressive job of replicating facial…

Today's hardware Friday project by Joel Ivory Johnson is one that I thought interesting in a number of ways. One, that it shows how we can use the XBox controller without XNA, yet still using managed languages and also as a non-trivial example of how to translate native calls for use in a managed…

Today's project shows off one means of connecting a WindowsRT app to a Kinect for Windows device (And shows off a bunch of other cool things like some DirectX goodness and more) The Byte Kitchen's Open Sources - Kinect Client Server SystemThe Kinect Client Server system consists of a desktop…

Today's information from Bruno Capuano provides a nice "how to" to get the Microsoft Robotics samples that use the Kinect for Windows SDK to compile with the latest version of the SDK... [#KINECT] HowTo: Compile Microsoft #Robotics samples for #KinectSdk 1.6Buenas, at the event on Tuesday…