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Mind Control with C# (and the Emotiv and Emotiv Engine Client Library)Apr 04, 2012 at 6:00 AM
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Today's Wild Wednesday project is one that's mind blowing (well actually, mind reading). Emotiv Engine Client LibraryI finally got my act together and posted the code for my EmoEngineClientLibrary, which is a C# wrapper around the DotNetEmotivSDK.dll assembly that ships with the Emotiv SDK. Browse… -
.Net Gadgeteer, REST, Cameras, Servos and Windows Phone 7Apr 06, 2012 at 6:00 AM 0
Today's Hardware Friday post lets us play with some of our favorite things, .Net Gadgeteer, Servos, REST, Cameras and Windows Phone 7... Using a Servo in a .NET Gadgeteer Camera DeviceThe Gadgeteer.Interfaces.PWMOutput interface can support the use of a servo to move mechanical parts of a device as… -
Sharpening your Metro C#/XAML projects with DirectX and SharpDXApr 09, 2012 at 6:00 AM 2
I've been keeping on eye on the SharpDX project for a while, waiting on a killer demo. I think I've found it, and in a way I wasn't really expecting. These post details not only how to use SharpDX, but how to use them in a Windows 8 Metro Style app too! First a snip about SharpDX; SharpDXSharpDX is… -
Mom always said, "Sit up straight..." Well, here's a hardware project to help with that...Apr 13, 2012 at 6:00 AM 5
Today's Hardware Friday post shows off an interesting usage of an accelerometer and one that for many of use would not only proudly display our hardware building geekness, but also improve our health too! Posture Regulator using .NET Gadgeteer Accelerometer from Seeed StudioPeople who work in… -
It's a Wesnoth Wednesday...Apr 11, 2012 at 6:00 AM 0
It's Wesnoth Wednesday! What's Wesnoth, you ask? Besides a free turn-based tactical strategy game which is open source (C++), cross platform (there's even OS2 and AmigaOS4 versions) and yet compiles pretty easily in Visual Studio 2008/2010? What is Battle for Wesnoth?The Battle for Wesnoth… -
Escape the fear of writing XNA games for Windows Phone 7.5 and XBOX 360Apr 16, 2012 at 6:00 AM 4
This week we're going to be doing a gaming theme, mostly focusing on getting started writing games (Pretty much in the hope that all of you that aren't already writing games, start doing so and thereby give us something to blog about here... see how that works? I'm tricksy… -
See? Farseer is easy to see (in your next game)Apr 18, 2012 at 6:00 AM 0
The second in our game theme week is a topic that's a favorite of mine, physics (well game physics anyway). It's another tutorial that shows that adding physics to your game doesn't have to be hard and isn't scary... Farseer tutorial for the absolute beginnersThis post is inspired (and somewhat a… -
Tyrant's aren't all bad, especially when they are micro and running on .NET Gadgeteer'sApr 20, 2012 at 6:00 AM 1
Our Hardware Friday post in this game theme week combines a couple of fun things, .Net Gadgeteer hardware and a RPG game (well the start of one at least). It also shows off a couple thing projects mentioned here in past posts, Gliding into a .Net Micro Framework UI design with GLIDE and Along came a… -
Using the Windows Portable Devices (WDP) API for fun and... fun...Apr 23, 2012 at 6:00 AM 3
Today's Mobile Monday post is going to be different than most... Instead of Windows Phone 7, etc, we're going to focus on a series of posts that covers an API that many may not know about, but once you do, might get you thinking about the cool stuff you can do with it (I know I am...) What is this… -
There's an Ogre in my Metro...Apr 25, 2012 at 6:00 AM 1
I could/should have saved this project for a Metro Monday post, but, well, I couldn't wait on this any longer. This project had me at "... includes binaries of Ogre, FreeImage, Hydrax and SkyX for x64, x86 and ARM in both Debug and Release flavors and is configured to automatically link the…
