Project Detroit: Lighting System
In this article, we give a detailed look into the external lighting system of Project Detroit, the Microsoft-West Coast Custom Mustang creation. If you're not already familiar with this project, you can find more information here. Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 21 12, 6:00 AM
[Special Edition] Kinect for Windows SDK v1.5 now available
Kinect for Windows SDK 1.5 - Face Tracking, Seated Skeletal Tracking, Kinect Studio, & MoreRob Relyea, a Principal Program Manager on the Kinect for Windows team joins us again on Channel 9 to discuss all of the new features with the 1.5 release of the Kinect for Windows SDK.Kinect for Windows Blog - Kinect for Windows Runtime and SDK Version 1.5... Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 21 12, 5:16 AM
Gestating your Metro Style App with Cocoon
Today's Metro Monday project is a framework that will help you in your creation of Windows 8 Metro Style applications, helping take a little of the grunt work out, while helping build applications with some separation of concerns. Plus I dig how it uses MEF to compose a navigable application. Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 21 12, 3:00 AM
Got an Kinect App? Need a web site? Here's a template for you...
So you've been working on your Kinect app or project, banging away night and day in Visual Studio and you're ready to show it off to the world. But now you need a web site too. It sure would be nice if there were some kind of Kinect App Web Site template available... Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 21 12, 3:00 AM
Connecting to Kinect over the wire via TUIO Skeleton
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Coding4Fun, May 18 12, 3:00 AM
A triple dose of the .NET Micro Framework. Netduino, .NET Gadgeteer and a FEZ Hydra Basic Kit
Today's Hardware Friday is a triple dose of .NET Micro Framework and .NET Gadgeteer getting started, into, kicked off, hooked, what are they and getting started posts. Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 18 12, 3:00 AM
Kin-Educate
Today's inspirational project (with download coming soon) is a great example of how the Kinect continues to help drive innovation in learning. Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 17 12, 3:00 AM
Put down the measuring tape. Using the Kinect to find your height
When I saw this, the first thing I thought was just how cool a thing an amusement park could build with this. Gone could be the days of the "You must be taller than this bar," instead replaced with an interactive, themed for the park, height measurement experience. Image standing there with a virtual Mickey or Donald or Bugs Bunny and using the Kinect to measure your children's height, compared to them? (Can't you just see Mickey holding up his virtual hand over a child's head and saying, "Great! You made it? I can't wait to see you..." or a sad Mickey when the child isn't tall enough?) Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 16 12, 3:00 AM
Welcome to the IGF, Indiefreaks Game Framework
Today's project is a kind that I don't usually highlight, one that relies on a commercial third party SDK, but I really appreciated the author's intent and goals with it. I just can't get enough of people taking their hard learned lessons, packaging them up and then sharing them freely with the world. Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 16 12, 3:00 AM
"Game Development with XNA and Microsoft Technologies: Kinect Development"
Teaching resources have a special place in my heart and in seeing this course, 34 class rooms sessions, with all the lesson plans, resources, labs, etc for learning to develop with the Kinect, well, how could I not share it? Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 15 12, 3:00 AM
Project Detroit: An Overview
In this article, we will give an overview of the technical side of Project Detroit, the Microsoft-West Coast Custom Mustang creation. If you're not already familiar with this project, you can find more information here. Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 14 12, 6:00 AM
Kinecting to your Anatomy with S.A.G.E.
Today's inspirational project is one that you just have to see to believe. It shows how the Kinect, melded with a projector can make learning (and more) into something fairly amazing... Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 14 12, 3:00 AM
From Windows Phone 7 to Windows 8 Metro, one app's journey
Last week we highlighted Den Delimarsky's Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone 7 app. On this Metro Monday, seems fitting to pair that post up with this one. Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 14 12, 3:00 AM
Making beautiful MIDI music (with .Net Gadgeteer)
Today's Hardware Friday post is in an area that I've not cover much, making music with .Net Gadgeteer projects using one of the older digital interfaces around, MIDI. Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 11 12, 3:00 AM
"Recovering Gracefully from Loss of Skeletal Tracking"
Today's project is a sharing of lessons learned by Carl Franklin while creating his GesturePak project (GesturePak (Beta) for the Kinect - A "no code" gesture recording and matching library) Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 11 12, 3:00 AM
WebSocketing the Kinect with Kinection
This week's project provides another means to remotely connect to a Kinect, this time using Websockets... Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 10 12, 3:00 AM
Building Battling Bots with DumbBots.Net
Today's project was one that I just happened across and I thought kind of cool, I mean what's more fun than programming bots to hunt down a kill each other? (Answer: Playing with the source of the project that lets you program bots to hunt down and kill each other) Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 9 12, 3:00 AM
Kinect for Silverlight 5
Today's project shows how even Silverlight can get into the Kinect game... Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 8 12, 3:00 AM
Vodigi - interactive digital signage, now with Kinect support
The rest of this week is going to be a Kinect on CodePlex week. The first is an interesting project that provides a glimpse of what we're seeing the Kinect used often with, interactive digital signage... Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 7 12, 3:53 AM
Visual Studio Achievements for Windows Phone
While it's very possible we're nearing a gamification bubble bust (gamepocalypse?) [evidence], it doesn't mean getting badges it isn't still fun. Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 7 12, 3:00 AM
Bootstrapper - Using the Kinect to Recognize Tabletop Users by their Shoes
And you thought last Friday's post, Kinecting with your tongue (really), was an unusual use of the Kinect? I'm not sure if this week's tops it or not... Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 4 12, 3:00 AM
32feet.NET, Bluetooth and .Net Gadgeteer
For our Hardware Friday we're going to mix in some Bluetooth and WPF in our .Net Gadgeteer world... Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 4 12, 3:00 AM
Kinect'ing to a Rocket Launcher? Oh yeah...
I'm not sure what's funnier, this project itself or the fact that I happened to have a like rocket launcher laying around myself... Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 3 12, 3:00 AM
Managing your Kinect with Rob Miles' Kinect Manager
Since we last highlighted Rob Miles' work in the The Purple Book... "Using Kinect for Windows with XNA" post, he's been a busy guy working on another book for the Kinect. And in his spare time, he's provided us a peek some of the code from the book... Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 2 12, 3:00 AM
Getting lost and found with the C# Maze Generator and Solver
Today's project harkens back to days when we used to love mazes... (Okay, I still do, but that's besides the point). Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 2 12, 3:00 AM
"Kinect Foto Shop"
Today's program (binary only, no source) is one example of one dev's fun in playing around with the Kinect, Kinect for Windows SDK and NUI's. Read more...
Coding4Fun, May 1 12, 3:00 AM
Making Mayhem with Volume Control
Why, hello there! We are going to pick up where we left off at the end of our Coding4Fun video. In the video we built a reaction that increments the volume level on the computer. We are going to expand from there to make a reaction that enables you to set the volume level to a specified volume. Read more...
Coding4Fun, April 30 12, 11:22 AM
3D Point Cloud with the Kinect
3D point clouds seem to be pretty popular with the Kinect so when I saw this article that talks about it in good depth... Read more...
Coding4Fun, April 30 12, 3:00 AM
To Space[Apps] and beyond!
Today's Mobile Monday post is by far the most "mobile" we've ever been. Hard to get more mobile than space apps. The cool thing about these projects (I mean besides their being space apps, hard to get cooler than that!) is that many of these projects are open source/source available. Read more...
Coding4Fun, April 30 12, 3:00 AM