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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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Building the PIX-6T4 and writing a game for it too12 hours ago 0
Our Hardware Friday post returns us to the PIX-6T4, The PIX-6T4 kit is out..., and a Friend of the Blog, Pete Brown.If you follow Pete, it probably won't surprise you to know he's gotten his hands on a PIX-6T4 and has shared his recent experience building the kit and writing his first… -
0 A.D. The C++ open source RTS that's looking for game dev geeks (not that you're a geek...)2 days ago 1
Today's project is a little outside our usual, delving into C++, but one that I still thought pretty cool. And since it compiles with VS 2005, VS2008 or VS2010 and is "Fun" I thought it might be something you all might like too.This project is still in an Alpha state, but that's… -
Where there's smoke, fire and explosions... there's the 3D particle engine, Tranquility4 days ago 2
Today's Mobile Monday project is one that's both simple, yet complicated. Simple in that this project is just one piece of the overall picture of where you can use it. Complicated in that this might be something the average dev might not be able to just knock out.Let's say you're writing a cool game…
