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I don't normally blog about projects that don't have source, but this project from Dr. Dave is just cool so I'm making an exception. Plus since it has an extensibility model, I guess that makes it code'able? Kind of? Anyway, it's cool and it's fun... What? NUIverseNUIverse is an application, written…

Recently on the Coding4Fun Kinect Gallery I highlighted a couple Kinect -> Mouse projects, Is that a mouse on your face? Or your face acting as a mouse? Both? FaceMouse, KinectMouse. And while I don't usually highlight commercial, non-source available projects I thought this pretty cool. But what…

David Renton, Friend of the Coding4Fun Kinect Gallery, has expanded his efforts to showing off the power of, and helping us learn, TouchDevelop. TouchDevelop has been highlighted before, Develop for Windows Phone, with Windows Phone... TouchDevelop, yet this time, David's hours of videos and pages…

Todays' project by Christer Kaitila is a kit that will help you quickly and easily build Windows 8 Platform games. Almost painfully easy to create games... If you've ever wanted to create your own platform game, and you've got a weekend, this kit is just for you... Windows 8 Platformer Game Starter…

Have Visual Studio 2012? Building Portable Libraries? Wonder what all the weird and wild code paths your code might have, but it hurts your brain to try to write every possible path in your unit tests? Want a free extension that throws everything at your code, but the kitchen sink? (though I think…

It's time for a little hardware hacking (in a good sense). No plug and play here, we're talking breadboards, wires, Arduino and some coding Okay, maybe this isn't "hacking" nor all the hardcore [at all] but for a non-circuit guy like me, it is... Arduino Fun – Door Entry AlarmPhysical…

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 Fun Wednesday project is one that's going to help you great cool games, free! These HTML5 games can be exported to Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and other platforms as well. Construct 2 PhysicsAdd realistic physics effects to your games in a few easy clicks. Special EffectsOver 70 visual…

Well it's Solar Time again! Yep, it's been like, what, days since I've done a solar or energy related project? Well enough of that! Today's Hardware Friday by Graham Ross might seem simple, but is one that I think you can adapt for anything number of cool hardware projects... Solar TrackerProject…

Today's Mobile Monday project is a simple project yet one that shows off a number of things. For one it show meshing C# and DirectX/C++. For another it shows off the DirectX Toolkit and finally who doesn't like to play a little (get it, little?) drums? DrumkitXA Windows Phone 8 port of the…