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KinectoPhone – Kinect and Windows Phone working together
A while ago we saw a demo from Microsoft that showed how it is possible to use Windows Phone to interact with a Kinect-powered game. During the Kinect Code Camp, right before the official release of the Kinect for Windows SDK beta, Adam Kinney, Rick Barazza, and I decided to work on a...
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ScriptTD - Tower Defense Made Easy!
ScriptTD is an open source project that allows anyone to easily create a new Tower Defense game for the Windows Phone 7 platform, without any prior programming knowledge. The project lets you create new art & audio and edit some XML files to bring it all together into a polished game without having to write all of the code required to make the game work.
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Jellybean, the Kinect Drivable Lounge Chair
You saw it at Mix—in typical fashion, our mission was to build two Jellybean robots in three weeks for the Mix keynote; no pressure, right?—and now it's time to introduce Project Jellybean on Coding4Fun. So, here it is—the Kinect drivable lounge chair! The lounge chair has Omni-directional wheels, eight batteries, two motor controllers, and a frame made of extruded aluminum.
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Netduino Controlled LED CubeNov 07, 2011 at 2:50 PM
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Commercial LED cubes have been around for a while now and can be quite large and capable of some interesting displays. This project is on a smaller scale and goes through the steps required to build a Netduino Mini-controlled 512 LED cube (8 x 8 x 8).Clearly, the Mini does not have 512 pins and so… -
KinectoPhone – Kinect and Windows Phone working togetherSep 08, 2011 at 3:07 PM 2
A while ago we saw a demo from Microsoft that showed how it is possible to use Windows Phone to interact with a Kinect-powered game. During the Kinect Code Camp, right before the official release of the Kinect for Windows SDK beta, Adam Kinney, Rick Barazza, and I decided to work on a… -
Where’s My Car?Aug 04, 2011 at 12:48 PM 2
Most people are all too familiar with forgetting where they parked their car. Whether or not you’re one of these people, read on to learn about writing a location-aware Windows Phone app that can map, route, take pictures, and save state between invocations.IntroductionWorking with mobile phones…
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Home Automation, Kinect, Netduino (and a Squirt Gun), oh my...1 day ago 0
Today's Hardware Friday post comes to us from Dan Thyer (@LogicalDan) and takes us back to the Netduino and Kinect world (plus just looks kind of fun).Home Automation with Netduino and KinectHome automation has been an interest of mine for a long time. There is a bunch of bad technology in the… -
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Using HTML5, web sockets and some C# to build a multiplayer Space Shoot[er]3 days ago 1
Today's Web Wednesday project is multiplayer HTML5 based Asteroids like game, showing off some simple HTML5 canvas dev and C# web socket communication.SpaceShoot - A multiplayer game in HTML5The interest in using HTML5 to produce awesome cross-platform games has been increased lately. Technologies… -
It's three-for-one QR Code Day5 days ago 1
Today's Mobile Monday post isn't one project, but three. Yep, it's a three for one day...We've all seen QR codes around, they are appearing on sites, in print, on TV and even tattoos. Four months ago we covered one way to consume them in a Windows Phone 7.1(5) app, Window Phone 7.5, ZXing and QR…
