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Doodling is fun with the open source DoodlePad for Windows PhoneToday's Mobile Monday post is a complete Windows Phone appl that has just been released as OSS. This is not a sample, not a demo, but a complete app, one that's been available on the Marketplace for a while and has over 35,000 downloads. And now you get the source, under an Apache 2.0 license, too!… -
Mars Rover Landing on your XBox 360, with the KinectWhile we don't usually (ever) highlight Kinect XBox 360 games, this one is so cool and unusual (and free) that I couldn't resist. I mean, come on, it's NASA! NASA partners with Microsoft to launch its first console gameIn the past, NASA has used everything from websites and mobile apps to coverage… -
Keeping an eye it with an object tracking .Net Gadgeteer robotToday's Hardware Friday brings a new face to the blog, someone I've not highlighted before, but someone I believe we'll see more of in the future. Today's project is .Net Gadgeteer Powered Object Tracking RobotThis is a .Net Gadgeteer powered robot based on the rover 5 platform, and using an ir… -
What we need is an updated GLEE, No... not that Glee, instead a GLEED2D for XNA 4Today's Fun Wednesday is a project I've seen mentioned on a number of game dev blogs and is one that I'd been watching for a while, GLEED2D. The problem is that that version is based on XNA 3.1. So I've watching and hoping to see a XNA 4 version drop. Looks like I wasn't the only one. Via the magic… -
Kinect'ing to Angry Birds SpaceToday's inspirational project provides another example of how the Kinect and Kinect for Windows SDK drives people to push its, and their, boundaries. BTW,n while you're there make sure you check out his other very cool Kinect projects. Kinect Angry Birds Space Now let me introduce my simple way to… -
Kinect + Unity3D Face TrackingToday's inspirational project provides a great example of how the new Face Tracking feature of the Kinect for Windows SDK can be used Kinect + Unity3D Face TrackingWe’ve been experimenting with the latest SDK’s from Microsoft for their Kinect for Windows device, particularly with the new facial… -
![Racing [chair] with the Kinect](http://files.channel9.msdn.com/thumbnail/17c93cb7-5866-427b-8e26-6613c14dd72f.png)
Racing [chair] with the KinectToday's project is one that I thought exhibits one of the greatest things about the Kinect, how it encourages experimentation and hacking (in the old, good, sense). Kinect racing chairHey, after watching this video (german language) or english version, in which Nico Rosberg explained how they sit in… -
Augmented Reality with SLARToolkit on Windows PhoneToday's Mobile Monday project takes us back to a toolkit mentioned here a few times, back to Windows Phone and back to augmented reality. If all these things have already been mentioned before why revisit them? Because today's post is an hour long session that gently introduces you to the world of… -
CogniMem adds pattern recognition to the KinectToday's inspirational videos shows how companies are integrating their technology and adding capabilities far beyond with the Kinect comes with out of the box Kinect Finger Recognition For GamesCogniMem Technologieswww.cognimem.com See our extended World of Goo gameplay video (controlled with… -
A steaming hot .NET Gadgeteer project, the steampunk weather stationToday's Hardware Friday post is a .Net Gadgeteer project that given the recent weather in the States, I thought weirdly appropriate. Prototyping a connected object using the .NET Gadgeteer: the example of a steampunk meteo stationFor years I’ve had this very old voltmeter I wanted to do something…
