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Well you all know the big news right? The Kinect for Windows SDK v1.7 is coming out today. This is a release that many have been looking forward too and includes some frankly awesome features... Hot Links: Latest SDK announcement Download the SDK  Kinect for Windows key features See Latest SDK…

Today's Mobile Monday project is one that's maybe not all that sexy and exciting, not something you're going to jump up and down about, it isn't a world changer, but it IS something needed in very Windows Phone 8 app. Something that every phone dev has to build, to create from scratch, a wheel…

Welcome to the RogueCode Blog! Just kidding... but with all the cool work Matt, aka RogueCode, has been doing, and which we've been highlighting, it kinds of feels that way doesn't it? Now if only the stuff he was doing wasn't just so darn cool. We have just about everything in this project.…

Today's kind of hardware hack is one that I wouldn't have believed possible... Who would have thought that you could power a Kinect with some AA batteries and that it would be usable for hours? Making a battery pack for your KinectAs you know, we love our Kinect device, but one of the big problems…

Today's Fun Wednesday project is one that's going to help you great cool games, free! These HTML5 games can be exported to Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and other platforms as well. Construct 2 PhysicsAdd realistic physics effects to your games in a few easy clicks. Special EffectsOver 70 visual…

The Kinect for Windows team, have both started up a new blog, Kinect for Windows Developer Blog and also released all the Kinect for Windows Samples on CodePlex. Now you can easily browse, download and connect with the dev team! Kinect for Windows Samples The Kinect for Windows (K4W) team release…

I thought today's project interesting and kind of cool. It uses the Intel Perceptual Computing SDK and your laptops (or PC's) camera to convert head gestures/turns into text. And who doesn't like a new SDK to play with? HeadTexter, A Head Movement to Text Conversion using Intel Perceptual Computing…

Today's Hardware Friday project by Georgi Hadzhigeorgiev is one that's a little unusual in that there's not only Netduino code but also an Arduino version available too. I thought that kind of cool, seeing both in one post... Also there's just nothing like a little Rock-Paper-Scissors.…

Friend of the Gallery, David Renton, is back with a new release of his Kinect Games suite, including a new game, Word Mage... Kinect Games version 3During my adventures with Microsoft in London a week ago, I created a Windows 8 app version of my Math Mage game using Microsoft’s new TouchDevelop…

In my day to day secret identity (aka. my job) I've been recently using AvalonEdit to help me present text files to my users, mark them up and also allow them to interact with that data and thought that since I hadn't shared AvalonEdit with you before... So there I was, having a bunch of plain text…