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XNA Platformer, HTML5 StyleSep 14, 2011 at 6:00 AM
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Today's project is a cool and fun example on the power of HTML5 and the canvas element. It shows how a game that was originally created in XNA, C# can be ported over to HTML5 and JavaScript. Yep, you read that right, a complete port of the game from XNA/C# to HTML5/JavaScript. Plus it's not just a… -
Windows Phone 7 and Azure, sitting in a tree... The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows PhoneSep 16, 2011 at 6:00 AM 0
Fun is focusing on building your app and not getting lost in infrastructure hell. Fun is building awesome apps that bring your data to your devices no matter where they are. Fun is letting Microsoft do some of the heavy lifting, while you code, code, code. Fun is getting started with the Windows… -
Using Netduino to monitor TwitterSep 19, 2011 at 6:00 AM 1
This is a simple looking project, but it shows off a number of cool things, like adding networking to standard Netduino (not a Plus) and living with Twitter in the constrained world that is embedded device dev. Monitoring Twitter with Netduino This blog post will introduce you to network… -
Blender 3D, XNA and a little bone bendingSep 23, 2011 at 6:00 AM 1
Today's project shows off using Blender, a free open source 3D design utility, and XNA. Two great tastes that taste great together... Animating single bones in a Blender 3D model with XNA There are some good examples around that show how to make animations in a 3D package and play them back in… -
Tracked Vehicle, Netduino poweredSep 26, 2011 at 6:00 AM 0
There's something about tracked vehicles, I mean what's cooler than watching a tracked vehicle run over something? When you do the running over with Netduino of course! Netduino powered tracked vehicle, Part 1 A couple of weeks ago I picked up this Tamiya Tracked Vehicle Chassis Kit with the… -
BUILD in your Media Center with MediaBrowserSep 21, 2011 at 6:00 AM 3
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… -
Building your own hand-held game console with, Netduino, C# and the PIX-6T4 projectSep 30, 2011 at 6:00 AM 4
Gaming = fun, right? Writing games with C# = fun, right? Writing games with C# that runs on Netduino hardware = run, right? Wrap all that into a hand-held package and we're talking some serious fun. Funny enough, coming to us via Fabien's Bit Bucket and his PIX-6T4 posts, that's what today's project… -
My Mango has a Teapot... Windows Phone 7.1/5 Augmented Reality SampleSep 28, 2011 at 6:00 AM 1
Augmented Reality (AR) is just cool. Seeing the digital and real world mashed up into one vision is something many of us have dreamed about for years. Now the devices we're carrying around have the power to make this vision come to pass. But sadly being able to carry around some AR in your pocket… -
Building a sound and movement detection applicationOct 03, 2011 at 6:00 AM 1
Have you ever used a web cam application that had motion detection capabilities? Where it would "do stuff" when it detected some kind of movement? Ever wondered how that was done and more importantly how you could add it to your own apps? Ever seen an application that did sound threshold… -
Fun is... using the same code on three different platforms. XAMLFinance shows us how.Oct 05, 2011 at 6:00 AM 3
Today's project provides one example of how you can target three different platforms, Windows Phone 7, Web/Silverlight and Windows Desktop/WPF while sharing much of the same for all three, while taking advantages of the features each platform provides. XAMLFinance – A Cross-platform WPF, Silverlight…
