Coding4Fun
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Project Detroit: Lighting System
Check out how we created the dynamic, external lighting system used in the Project Detroit Mustang. Build your own effects with a Netduino, some LED strips, and our software!
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Project Detroit: An Overview
Learn more about the technical details of the Project Detroit Mustang. In this article, we will give an overview of the technical side of Project Detroit, the Microsoft-West Coast Custom Mustang creation. If you're not already familiar with this project, you can find more information here.
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Making Mayhem with Volume Control
Mayhem is an open source application with a near-zero learning curve. Mayhem provides a collection of triggers events and reactions, allowing non-programmers to use their computers to automate... anything! Check out the Coding4Fun video and article to start building with Mayhem today, starting with a "reaction" to control the system volume.
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Project Detroit: OBD-II Manager
Read diagnostic information from your car and display it on a slick instrument cluster dashboard!
The OBD-II Manager project is the OBD-II sub-system and instrument cluster application from the Project Detroit Mustang we built with West Coast Customs.
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Channel9/Coding4Fun On Inside West Coast Customs!
Last year at Build, we announced a partnership between the Channel 9/Coding4Fun team and Ryan Friedlinghaus, award winning automotive designer of Discovery Channel's Velocity network Inside West Coast Customs. We set out to reconstruct a 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback to be outfitted with the latest in Microsoft technology. Tune in Sunday, March 25th at 6pm Pacific (9pm Eastern) on Discovery's Velocity network, followed by a worldwide debut on Discovery World.
Articles
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Project Detroit: Lighting SystemMay 21, 2012 at 9:00 AM
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In this article, we give a detailed look into the external lighting system of Project Detroit, the Microsoft-West Coast Custom Mustang creation. If you're not already familiar with this project, you can find more information here.OverviewThe external lighting system for Project Detroit is run on a… -
Project Detroit: An OverviewMay 14, 2012 at 9:00 AM 11
In this article, we will give an overview of the technical side of Project Detroit, the Microsoft-West Coast Custom Mustang creation. If you're not already familiar with this project, you can find more information here. Key Design DecisionsIt’s important to keep in mind that this car was built… -
Making Mayhem with Volume ControlApr 30, 2012 at 2:22 PM 0
Why, hello there! We are going to pick up where we left off at the end of our Coding4Fun video. In the video we built a reaction that increments the volume level on the computer. We are going to expand from there to make a reaction that enables you to set the volume level to a specified…
Blog
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HTML5 Platformer game PhoneGap'ed onto Windows Phone 7.1(5)1 day ago 0
Today's Mobile Monday takes us to a project type that I've not covered before, using PhoneGap (aka Cordova) to build Windows Phone 7.1(5) apps. The promise of PhoneGap is that you can write a single app and deploy it to many different phone platforms, from iOS to Android and Windows Phone 7.That's… -
Lego's, IR and Netduino?4 days ago 0
Today's Hardware Friday post takes three of our favorite hardware things and show us how we can make them work together. Really, what's more more fun then a series that helps us build hardware and write code that let's Netduino, the .Net Micro Framework talk to Lego's!Using netduino and .NET… -
An introduction to Unity3D - A 30 minute getting started guide6 days ago 0
A number of times I've mentioned Unity3D, usually with the assumption that you all knew what it was, how to get it and how to use it. Well you know what they say about when you "assume" something...That's why today's post caught my eye. It's not "code" per-se (though there…
