Hardware

Pete Brown has created an example of accessing a scanner with WIA via WPF.  In the past we've chatted about going paperless with WIA and accessing a camera with it too, but Pete talks about how WIA the guts of it works and how to get  an application to leverage it.  To find out…

Inside the Microsoft booth at CES is a row of computers that we call Muscle Beach. These are some of the latest PCs from partners that will be coming out over the next year. I'm really impressed this year with some of the forward thinking features hardware companies are coming out with, like the…

Inside the Microsoft booth at CES is a row of computers that we call Muscle Beach. These are some of the latest PCs from partners that will be coming out over the next year. I'm really impressed this year with some of the forward thinking features hardware companies are coming out with, like the…

Fun3 MD created a DIY version with an Arduino of the AtmoLight, which is a clone of the Philip Amblight system.  Awesome job of leveraging a pre-existing technology instead of re-inventing the wheel.

Microsoft's Mouse 2.0 project is an interesting look at the next step for pointing devices in five completely different versions of multitouch mice. One of the things I liked about the Mouse 2.0 news is that we put our cards on the table at a very early stage and asked what the public…

Microsoft's Mouse 2.0 project is an interesting look at the next step for pointing devices in five completely different versions of multitouch mice. One of the things I liked about the Mouse 2.0 news is that we put our cards on the table at a very early stage and asked what the public…

Tired of having a computer with no sensors?  We've created a parallax windows 7 sensor driver with source code so you can create your own! The sensor device we made here is a Passive-Infrared Sensor.  So basically it is a motion sensor.  The board used in the white paper is the…

We'll be posting one project each month but here is the Coding4Fun booth at PDC 2009!  You can even view the Iron Bartender challenge at GeekFest as well! Overall Recap of each project   Iron Bartender!   

Coding4Fun is in attendance at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference!  We are demoing 5 projects that will have full how-to's and will be open-sourced as well.  Drinktendr, Mind Blaster, Laser Graffiti, Augmented Reality, and Wi-Fi Warthogs are powered by .Net, XNA, WPF,…

There is a somewhat little known department here at Microsoft called the Applied Science Group and they do some truly incredible work. They are the research team behind Microsoft Hardware. I met up with Paul Dietz from this group and he showed me the amazing new Micrososft Pressure…