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Johnny Chung Lee has some awesome applications he's done with the WiiMote.  He has two examples, the coolest is making a low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboard while the other tracks your fingers and does a multi-point grid.  His code uses Brian Peek's WiiMote library, DirectX and…

I was at Fabio Pedrosa's blog and I noticed Fabio had a post on how to do WPF blurring and it was shockingly simple.  Here is the code from his site to produce the image on the right. <Window x:Class=“Blurred.Window1″ xmlns=“http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation”  …

Over at Trossen Robotics Forums, I became aware of a sweet USB turret with the ability to track multiple targets.  They built it using Phidgets (they are on our holiday gift guide) and a few other parts. In addition to just servos, I found out via Trossen Robotics you can use a servo…

On 1/16/08, Microsoft announced the ability to download some of the .NET Framework source code for debugging. This download process was only supported inside of a properly configured Visual Studio 2008. 21 Days Later, Kerem Kusmezer and John Robbins released a tool to download the source code…

Dan Waters has created an tutorial about how to create a XNA video game from scratch.  I'm not talking just source, he talks about creating 3D models, texturing, creating audio, and more.  Dan has 12 chapters all with videos and provides the source code including audio, textures, and…

Would you like to have your iTunes lists play on the Zune?  Avner Aharoni wrote an application in Visual Basic using LINQ to do just this.  If you want to view just the LINQ, you can head over to Code @ MSDN. So why is this possible?  Since LINQ can do XML and iTune's database is…

Maker Faire 2008 is coming up fast and Coding4Fun was wondering what we should whip up.  Comment or email us.  We have some ideas but would love to hear what the community would want us to do. Last year we had:  Programmatic Party' with a Disco dance floor and automated bartender,…

We've been asked a few times to create a screen scraper, however, the ASP.Net Library site has created a way of screen scraping.  They parse the HTML and find the tables in it and directly convert those to Data Sets for your program to consume. Their demo uses pre-done HTML, however they…

One of my biggest problems when getting bubble gum are the white ones.  I hate them.  Thanks to Bubkas, this isn't a problem anymore since they created a Lego NXT bubble gum sorter.  I wonder what the big O notation is for this bubble sort? Via  Make

Would you like to create your own wizard extremely easily?  Dan Fernandez, over at Channel 9, has his weekly show and I found something extremely cool and useful.  On Code Project, Manish Ranjan Kumar has created a wizard control.  Well, what makes this so cool?  It has full…