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In today's Hardware Friday Project takes us back, Windows Phone 8, Netduino and Bluetooth..., to the very cool work that Matt Cavanagh is doing. Chris Walker of Netduino fame was impressed enough to reach out to us to point out the cool stuff Matt's doing now. I mean how can you not dig a Windows…

Last week was all BUILD, so it seems fitting to highlight a project that makes revisiting BUILD quicker, easier and kind of fun. Also we've not featured a Media Center plugin before (let alone one that's OSS). And finally I'll give you some tips on building a custom RSS video feed for BUILD (and…

As I write this, Curiosity is about a day away from its big moment, its touchdown on Mars (Boy, I hope it lands with no problems! Fingers, arms, legs, eyes are all crossed that all goes well! Go NASA! Go Humanity!). Needless to say, there's a good bit of Mars Fever right now. You think you have it…

Today's Project by Michael B. McLaughlin is one that's got the Channel 9 team excited, having been picked as a Pick of the Week on This Week on Channel 9 and emailed to me as a "Hey, Greg can you..." by another Niner too. Last June (wow, has it been that long?) we covered the DirectX…

Today's Hardware Friday post takes us to another .Net Micro Framework/Netduino developer who's been on knocking out a bunch of great articles and projects... C9'ers, this is Mario Vernari. Mario Vernari, this is C9'ers... A simple yet versatile GDI library for Netduino.This is my second attempt of…

First a tease... Try F# demonstrates the power of F# to solve real-world analytical programming and information-rich problems by providing a web experience to help you learn the F# language, create programs, and share information—quickly and easily. You all know how much I like "learning…

First post of the year! Yeah! So how should we start off the year? If I were to make a prediction, I might be tempted to call this year, the "Year of the Device." We now have some very high quality devices from all the major players, the app stores continue to go and devices are nor must…

Today's "I don't know what to call it" Wednesday project is one that's just a little different, not a game or anything, but something I've not seen mentioned too much recently. Visual Studio has these cool things to help you in your debugging, called Visualizers. They help you see beyond…

Today's Hardware Friday project by Georgi Hadzhigeorgiev is one that's a little unusual in that there's not only Netduino code but also an Arduino version available too. I thought that kind of cool, seeing both in one post... Also there's just nothing like a little Rock-Paper-Scissors.…

Today's Modern Monday project isn't just one project, it's 14. 14 Windows 8 Store App Starter Kit projects that provide examples of how to use a number of free web service API's, like Rotten Tomatoes, Yelp, Earthquakes + Bing, World of Warcraft and the Chuck Norris Internet Database [insert…