Coding4Fun

Today's Hardware Friday project from Ian Lee, Sr. is one that's not our usual kind of hardware project, it's hardware as in real hardware... With all the recent talk of tablets, well how could we let this go bye without a mention? Gadgetab – the Gadgeteer TabletThis story… …begins a couple years ago…

Today's Mobile Monday project is a Windows Phone 8 SDK Sample project that shows off something I've not seen highlighted too often, how you can build in voice and speech into your Windows Phone 8 app's. Alarm Clock with voice Commands SampleThis sample demonstrates how to manage an alarm by using…

I'm just a sucker for weather stations. I don't know what it is about them, but I can't ever seem to get enough of them. And since we're currently having some "weather" here in Southern California I thought a .Net Micro Framework Weather Station something cool to blog about... This is more…

Today's inspirational project shows how the Kinect and Kinect SDK is being used in some unusual ways. KINECT-PACThis project is an extension of some work I did last November that integrated gesture-based control with a Programmable Automation Controller (PAC). The purpose of this simple follow-on…

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…

In this tutorial, we'll create a Silverlight pinball game using Behaviors, a new addition to Expression Blend 3 & Silverlight that allows you to create interactivity with little or no coding.

Today's binary download only project provides another example of how the Kinect is being used to make learning fun... Kinect Angles Version 2This is my second released of Kinect Angles, featuring improved graphics, sound effects, built in screen saver and better picture saving. A few bug fixes, like…

Today's Modern UI Monday project and post from Alnur Ismail provides some great guidance and information on to increase your code's portability across many of the Microsoft development platforms. With the number of platforms growing, the more code we can reuse, via a binary library, the better,…

Are you a PowerShell hero? Do you write scripts in your sleep? Does the thrill of seeing your name at the top of leaderboards drive you to excel? Or do you just need a little motivation to kick your PowerShell learning into gear? Today is your day... 2012 Windows PowerShell Scripting Games: All…

In this walk through, we will create a game for Windows Phone 7 using Silverlight, in the style of table shuffleboard style game for Windows Phone 7 using Silverlight.. Many bars feature these long wooden table games, in which players slide metal pucks down the length of the table, attempting to…