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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.
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Boxing Bots: Kinect-Driven Pneumatic Boxing Robots
At the SXSW Interactive Opening Party hosted by Frog Design and Microsoft, the Coding4Fun team has unveiled their latest invention, BoxingBots!
With BoxingBots you are the controller except this time, forget the screen. You're controlling a 6-foot tall metal robot that's trying to punch out your opponent's 6-foot tall machine. It's Real Steel in real time.
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Project Detroit: An Overview2 days ago
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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 1
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… -
Project Detroit: How to Read Your Car’s Engine Data with OBD-IIApr 09, 2012 at 12:24 PM 18
In this article we will look at the OBD-II sub-system and instrument cluster application of the Project Detroit Mustang we built with West Coast Customs. If you're not familiar with this project, you can find out more about it here and here.OBD-IIOBD stands for On-Board Diagnostics. In…
Blog
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Welcome to the IGF, Indiefreaks Game Framework4 hours ago 0
Today's project is a kind that I don't usually highlight, one that relies on a commercial third party SDK, but I really appreciated the author's intent and goals with it. I just can't get enough of people taking their hard learned lessons, packaging them up and then sharing them freely… -
From Windows Phone 7 to Windows 8 Metro, one app's journey2 days ago 2
Last week we highlighted Den Delimarsky's Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone 7 app. On this Metro Monday, seems fitting to pair that post up with this one.With Windows 8 and Metro a common question is, "How hard is it to re-use, re-purpose or port a Windows Phone 7 app to a Windows 8… -
Making beautiful MIDI music (with .Net Gadgeteer)5 days ago 1
Today's Hardware Friday post is in an area that I've not cover much, making music with .Net Gadgeteer projects using one of the older digital interfaces around, MIDI.Gadgeteer and MIDI: Making Music with MicrocontrollersAt the end of what's been a kind of tough week, with a spring cold making its…
