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I'm not sure if today counts as a "hardware" project, but I thought it cool and something we've not highlighted before and is hardware'ish, so... Lucian shows us UPnP for Windows 8, how we might use it and generally helps us understand it by writing code for it... UPnP code for Windows…

Gesture handling is one of those things with the current Kinect for Windows SDK that we are all re-inventing. Until something is baked into the SDK, this is a ripe area for innovation and experimentation. Today's project is a good example of that... Simple Gesture Processing using the Kinect for…

You all caught the official launch of Visual Studio 2012 and .Net Framework 4.5 this past week? If not you can catch the keynotes and a number of great sessions on-demand here. So I hear some of you asking, "What's new in .Net Framework 4.5?" Wouldn't it be kind of cool if there were an…

Containing with the Visual Studio 2012 Launch theme, in the keynotes (which you can see on-demand here), you saw a number of demo's of the "My Events" application. Think it was kind of cool and something you'd like to look see the source for? MY EVENTS - Sample Modern Application with…

Today's project by John McCaffery is a C++ library (and demo's) that looks like it would be a great help to those build Kinect for Windows applications in C++. NuiLibNuiLib is a utility library intended to ease integration of NUI (Natural User Input) Devices (such as the Microsoft…

Today's post, via Alfred Thompson, isn't about the Kinect for Windows Device or SDK. I know, I know, the Gallery is supposed to be focused those, but schools and teachers have a special place in my heart and this IS about the Kinect, so... Try Kinect at your K-12 SchoolCapturing students' interest…

Today's project by Walt Smith provides a tutorial (and code) for getting started with the Kinect and WinForms (yes, WinForms). Beginning Kinect for Windows Programming for WinFormsHi everyone, this sample will show you the basics of how to use the Kinect for Windows device within a Winforms…

Our second Hardware Friday post is, oddly enough, related to our first post, .Net Micro Framework v4.2 now available for Netduino. Who better to tell us how to get started with Netduino and the .Net Micro Framework than the man behind it, Chris Walker? Getting Started with Netduino

Today's project is an cool inspirational example of how the Kinect and Kinect for Windows SDK can be used as part of a robot to provide some human like behavior, like following you with its "eyes" as you move about the room... Humanoid robot torso A1[Machine Translated] A larger project in…

This is one of those weird things that you just wouldn't expect until you see it... Shake n Sense Makes Kinects Work Together!Microsoft Research has discovered that shaking Kinects, far from making them fall apart, makes them work together. See it in action in the video. This is one of those ideas…