The Maker Show: Azure IoT Starter Kits

Nick Landry (@ActiveNick) is a mobility pioneer and former entrepreneur specializing in cross-platform mobile app development for Windows, iOS and Android devices. Nick works at Microsoft as a Senior Technical Evangelist in the New York Metro area. He spent most his career in IT consulting, software and services companies across various technical and business roles, designing, building, managing and selling innovative software products and solutions for the world's top brands and Fortune 500 companies.
Known for his dynamic and engaging style, he is a frequent speaker at major software development conferences worldwide, was a 10-year Microsoft MVP awarded on Windows Phone Development, and a Nokia Developer Ambassador & Champion. With over 24 years of professional experience, Nick is a certified developer and software architect by trade and specializes in Cross-Platform Mobility, IoT, Cloud, GIS and Mobile Game Development. He is an active blogger, occasional author, avid gamer, loving husband and proud father.
Blog: http://AgeofMobility.com – GitHub: http://github.com/activenick
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The Maker Show: Mini - GraviComp Mechanical Computer
Why am I not surprised? :)
Game Dev Show 15 - Building a Windows 10 (or Xbox) Game with Win2D, C# and XAML
@Vito: The best place to ask questions and raise issues is on GitHub. This is where the team and other community members are actively helping developers. I encourage you to submit your question there: https://github.com/Microsoft/Win2D/issues.
In the meantime, the spritesheet demo in the example gallery would be your best bet as to how to animate via spritesheets. The wizard in that sample has two spritesheet-based animations (walking & idle), and there is also a spritesheet for the environment. You can get the source code at https://github.com/Microsoft/Win2D-samples, and this example is in the UAP project (not the shared project).
Episode 206: Bot Framework with Mike Hall
Also make sure to check out my Bot Framework video I posted a few weeks ago: https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/raw-tech/Build-Reaction-Cortana-and-the-Bot-Framework.
Building a Conversational Bot: From 0 to 60
Check out my latest Channel 9 video on Cortana, Digital Assistants and the Bot Framework: https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/raw-tech/Build-Reaction-Cortana-and-the-Bot-Framework.
The Maker Show: Episode 5 - Installing Windows 10 on a Raspberry Pi 2
See my comment above. Unlike Raspbian which is a flavor of Linux, Windows 10 IoT Core is not a consumer OS. You cannot code on it the way that Raspbian lets you code in Python or Scratch. Windows 10 IoT Core is meant to run Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps only, and those are built in Visual Studio with C#, VB, or C++. We will cover the development experience of Windows 10 IoT Core in future episodes soon enough. In the meantime, check out the reference links in the show notes.
The Maker Show: Episode 5 - Installing Windows 10 on a Raspberry Pi 2
From an end-user point of view, Windows 10 IoT Core is VERY different than full Windows 10 or event Windows RT. Windows 10 IoT Core is a single-app environment. There is no shell, no store, no ability to run more than one app. It is purely meant for IoT scenarios and not for consumer or business scenarios. The huge benefit of course is that you get access to the full Windows 10 developer stack to build your IoT client-side apps.
The Maker Show: Episode 5 - Installing Windows 10 on a Raspberry Pi 2
Hehe, yeah, we caught that before publishing yesterday but it was too late to reshoot. Good catch!
Your Employer Owns Your Job, but YOU Own Your Career: Why Mobile Dev Matters
LOL, that's one way to look at it :)
The Maker Show: Episode 4 - Building and Printing a 3D Model to Fit a Real Component
Thanks for reminding me that I need a 3D printer Jeremy :) I want one so badly. I wonder what our viewers are using for 3D printing. Any recommendations?
The Maker Show: Episode 1 - Intro to Electronics
@Northernlad: Thanks for the suggestion. Most of us already use Fritzing, you're right, it's an awesome software. We'll be sure to feature more screens to show diagrams and such in future shows.
The Maker Show: Episode 1 - Intro to Electronics
@RaReRa: Thanks for the feedback. We're still ironing out best practices for the show and we'll be sure to use camera close-ups and/or on-screen diagrams to make it easier to see schematics and breadboard experiments. Thanks for watching.
The Maker Show: Meet Your Makers
@Jamie Dixon: Hi Jamie, I agree with you 100%, we all do. The cast of The Maker Show is actually much larger than the 6 guys you met in this episode. Some of the makers you will see in future episodes include Stacey Mulcahy, Rachel Weil and Nathaniel Rose. We have a very diverse team in DX and we embrace diversity across the board. It just so happens that these are the 6 that could make it for the recording of episode 0. Stay tuned! :)