Coding4Fun

Today's project might not be one that is used often, but it's fun and not something I believe I've seen before... Then again, who wouldn't want to power their automation with PowerShell and the Kinect? PowerShell and the KinectA few months back I wrote a “module” for scripting the Kinect with…

Today's Web Wednesday isn't a Visual Studio project. Isn't Windows Phone. Windows Azure, or even a Microsoft project. It's not even written in a usual Microsoft sphere language (much appears to be written with Ruby). So why am I highlighting it here? But it looks like a awesome resource that you can…

Today's project is another in András Velvárt series on using the new Kinect Interactions. In this project he's making it even easier with... Kinect Interaction with WPF Part II: Getting Started Easier [KinectChooserEx]In the previous post of this series, I have introduced the Kinect for Windows SDK…

Today's Mobile Monday project is a simple project yet one that shows off a number of things. For one it show meshing C# and DirectX/C++. For another it shows off the DirectX Toolkit and finally who doesn't like to play a little (get it, little?) drums? DrumkitXA Windows Phone 8 port of the…

Today's Hardware Friday project is one from someone I've been wanting to highlight for a while, and finally, the time is just right. Laurent Ellerbach has been building some pretty cool .Net Micro Framework projects for a while now. Here's just a few; Lighting my Lego city using .NET Microframework…

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

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 InvadersProject DescriptionThe classic Space Invaders game written in C#. **Space Invaders The Game **The project represents…

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 TelevisionWelcome to the very first Kinecting for Windows tutorial. IntroductionThe goal of this application is to create a television where you are in the…

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…

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!"…