hardware miscellaneous

In this article, Brian Peek will demonstrate how to use a Nintendo Wii Remote (Wiimote), a Wii Fit Balance Board, and Vuzix VR920 glasses as input devices for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D, providing a fully immersive, 3D experience. Brian Peek ASPSOFT, Inc. Difficulty: Intermediate Time…

Do have a GPS receiver laying around?  Do you travel?  Do you blog?  If you answered yes to these questions, you might be interested in this Windows Live Writer plugin.  People who travel and like to blog about it can just click a button to insert their current coordinates…

  In this installment of "Some Assembly Required" column, Scott Hanselman, a Type 1 Diabetic, uses .NET to download blood sugar numbers from a Glucose Meter. Along the way he lays down the rough scaffolding for a plugin system so other meters could be added easily. The…

  In this installment of "Some Assembly Required" column, Scott Hanselman borrows Travis Illig's CueCat BarCode scanner and creates a plugin for Windows Live Writer than lets him blog more easily about books he's reading. We decode the bar code info, change UPCs into ISBNs, call…

  In this installment of the "Some Assembly Required" column, Scott Hanselman creates a Family Fingerprint Manager using .NET 2.0 that interfaces with the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader and the GrFinger SDK from Griaule. Scott Hanselman Scott's Blog Difficulty: Intermediate Time…

  In this Part Two of "Some Assembly Required", Scott Hanselman extends his original Microbric Viper Robot/Iguanaworks IR solution to script-enable control of the robot with Lee Holme's "PowerShell LOGO." Background Scott Hanselman Scott's Blog Difficulty:…

Summary: In this installment of "Some Assembly Required", Scott Hanselman teams up with the makers of the Microbric Viper Robot and the guys at Iguanaworks to create a custom IR serial port board to control the Viper Robot using .NET! Introduction The Microbric Viper is…