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While we don't highlight commercial items hear much, this one looks like a perfect exception. Rob Miles, Friend of the Gallery (Managing your Kinect with Rob Miles' Kinect Manager & The Purple Book... "Using Kinect for Windows with XNA") has a new Kinect book coming out July 2012…

Today's Wild Wednesday project is an open source project governed by NASA, via open.NASA. This is a large open source C++ project that lets you run your own space missions, how cool is that? We're talking real space missions, not a game or like, but real, well simulated real, missions. GMAT…

I've seen it asked a few times, "Where are the Kinect for Windows (aka PC) games?" Well I've been keeping my eyes open for them and so as soon as I saw this, I knew I had to post it. The source is not available, but at least the game is free. BTW, I found this via 123Kinect.com's New PC…

Last week the Kinect team released an update for the Kinect Developer Toolkit, v1.5.1. While it's a minor update, there's a number of improvements that I'm sure you'll want... Kinect for Windows: Developer Toolkit Update (v1.5.1)Back in May, we released the Kinect for Windows SDK/Runtime v1.5 in a…

With last week's announcement of Windows 8 (which you can now catch on-demand here, Windows Phone Summit), it feels like a Mobile Monday kind of day. With touch devices, like the Windows Phone, it's important that we take advantage of gestures, making them a integral part of our applications. You're…

Dan and Rick delivered a great presentation on build applications for the Kinect with the Kinect for Windows SDK at TechEd North America 2012. How could we not highlight that? Coding4Fun: Build Fun, Cool, Commercial Applications Using the Kinect for Windows SDKCome to this must-see session to find…

The final project in our Diagramming week is a stretch. Yet it's a "diagramming/drawing" project that might of been our first introduction to it. This project takes a fun toy we played with (cough... or still play with... cough...) and brings it into our hardware building, Netduino…

Today's tutorial provides a great "How To" on the new Kinect Studio that was part of the Kinect v1.5 SDK release. If you've been wondering how to use the Kinect Studio you've got to read this post (it's not long, but should be more than enough to get you started!). [#KINECTSDK] HowTo: Use…

Today's inspirational project is another example of how the Kinect and Kinect SDK can be so much more than just a game device... Vehicle for physically challengedMajor Project - "Vehicle for physically challenged" in completion of Bachelor of technology from JIIT, Noida in May 2012.…

The second project in our Diagraming week is one that I've wanted to highlight for a while. Imagine you need a diagramming, or drawing board, component in your app, kind of like a mini-Visio. Yet you also want to extend it, add to it (i.e. you want the source). You want something that is vector…