Coding4Fun

One of the highlights for all PDC09 attendees was the Coding4Fun booth. And- without question- the highlight of the Coding4Fun booth was Clint Rutkas' DrinkTendr- a robot machine that is programmed to pour the perfect cockatil. In this video we pitted human vs. machine in a battle to the…

I've not seen many Metro Style Kinect project yet, so when I saw this I knew I had to include it in the Gallery. And the fact that it's an entry in the Imagine Cup competition is major icing on the cake... Kinect your Metro Style AppAs part of our Software Design project in Imagine Cup competition,…

The boys at Coding4Fun really out-did themselves this time. They created Kinect-Driven Pneumatic Boxing Robots and showed them off to the party-goers at last nights opening party for the SXSW Interactive track, host by Frog and Microsoft. Essentially 2 humans each use their own Kinect to…

Earlier this year at Build, we announced a partnership between the Channel 9/Coding4Fun team and Ryan Friedlinghaus, world famous and award winning automotive designer based in Corona, California and star of the Discovery Channel's Velocity network reality TV series, Inside West Coast Customs. …

In this article we will look at the OBD-II sub-system and instrument cluster application of the Project Detroit Mustang we built with West Coast Customs.  If you're not familiar with this project, you can find out more about it here and here. OBD-IIOBD stands for On-Board Diagnostics.  In…

For //build/ 2012, we wanted to showcase what Windows 8 can offer developers.  There are a lot of projects showing off great things like contracts and Live Tiles, but we wanted to show off some of the lesser known features.  This project focuses on one of those: stereoscopic 3D with…

For our Wild Wednesday project it's time to get into the wayback machine and not only play a little Doom 3 but play with its source too. I thought this a great series that walks you through getting the source, compiling it, walking you through its structure and more. Doom3 Source Code Review:…

Kinect for Windows SDK 1.5 - Face Tracking, Seated Skeletal Tracking, Kinect Studio, & MoreRob Relyea, a Principal Program Manager on the Kinect for Windows team joins us again on Channel 9 to discuss all of the new features with the 1.5 release of the Kinect for Windows SDK. Kinect for Windows…

Today's Hardware Friday provides us with a number of things to see in action. Mobile app, jQuery, MVC and some Netduino too...And it's just kind of funny. Using jQuery Mobile with MVC and Netduino for Home AutomationThis article is great for anybody learning jQuery Mobile or building mobile…

Today's WPF Wednesday is a library that I think some of you will have some fun with... I came across this project by accident, but the more I looked at it the cooler I thought it was. Do audio stuff? Need equalizer like controls? A running time digital clock? Display Album Art for an MP3? A Spectrum…