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A cool Wii-mote driver project on The Code Project: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/wiisensor.aspx

Channel 9 discusses generic sensor driver from O'Reilly: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/TWC9-Hack-Powerwheels-APIs-for-Wikipedia-Smooth-Streaming-Arduinos-and-more/ Coding4Fun topic about Arduino sensors: http://blogs...

Gus Class has created a Facebook group called " Windows Developers ." If you use Facebook, come join us.

Donn Morse has posted sample code and a white paper here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/motionsensor The whitepaper describes how you can build a simple motion sensor, a Sensor device driver, and a Sensor application that you can use to observe...

We've published a new Windows Developer Center on MSDN. Part of the update includes a nice page for learning about Windows 7 sensors and location. Here's the link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee658252.aspx Enjoy!

Press release here: http://www.u-blox.com/en/press-and-events/press-release-archive/845.html If you're looking for GPS hardware to use for developing your Windows 7 location-aware apps, u-blox has a solution available now. Driver here: http://www...

Here's a source code release for .NET interop with Win32 features, including the Sensor API: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WindowsAPICodePack The Windows® API Code Pack for Microsoft® .NET Framework provides a source code library that can be used...

In the Windows 7 Sensor platform, some properties and data fields contain arrays of information. For example, the SENSOR_PROPERTY_LIGHT_RESPONSE_CURVE property contains an array of 4-byte unsigned integers. However, when you receive such arrays through...

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A reader asks: I've searched for information on Internet how to say to Windows 7 that external Bluetooth GPS should be used as the location sensor, but actually I have not found any answers, just the similar questions in forums. Probably it would be...

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SensorsAndLocation/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2359 See the “Sensor Development Kit for Windows 7 ” link. This firmware puts the badge board into sensor demo mode, by default. See the readme for details...

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=JMBADGE&tab=Buy_Parametric_Tab&fromSearch=false If you've seen the sensor development kits we handed out at PDC and WinHEC last year, but couldn't get your hands on one, great news...

Here's a great article that spotlights a colleague in PC3 at Microsoft. Mike LaManna has done some great work, here, with a low-tech (and virtually free) accessibility solution that will help a lot of people. Click here for the article.

If you don't compile the interop sample for 64-bit and then try to use the x86 version in your 64-bit project, you'll get a BadImageFormatException when you try to compile your project. This is to be expected. However, we've noticed that the x64 configuration...

If you've worked with property keys, say with Windows Portable Devices, you've probably run across this macro. The Sensor platform would require you to define your own property keys if, say, you want to define a custom sensor data type. This macro isn...

If you've been itching to work with sensors and location, but prefer to use .NET, here's great news for you! http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SensorsAndLocation Here's a direct link to the code download: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com...

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_smart_blocks.html Captivating video that demos the use of blocks as computers. Obviously some orientation and proximity sensor stuff going on here, too.

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb870493.aspx We're experiencing some issues with rendering bulleted and numbered lists and working diligently to resolve this issue. Thanks for being patient.

Disclaimer: Any time I post information about what I’m working on, it represents my current thinking, which is subject to change as I discover more information about the platform. I’d think this would be obvious in a blog, but I just want to remind the...

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I was working on a sensor driver sample last week, the one I wrote about below. One of the requirements of the sample is that the driver must keep track of the list of requested report intervals. The idea is that the driver will fire events at the shortest...

On YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZzQycqjIfY Check out the cool accelerometer-controlled spaceship starting around 1:08. Now if only I spoke German. Hope he's not saying anything untoward. ;-) (Thanks, Gavin, for the link.)

So, when I started working on the documentation for the sensor platform, I started at the bottom: the driver level. I've been at Microsoft 8 years now. In fact, my anniversary was this week. Come to think of it, my wedding anniversary was this week, too...

I thought I'd give some useful information about the docs we released for PDC. Keep in mind that these are very early docs. The docs for the Sensor API, Location API, and Sensor WDK provide some pretty good and mostly up-to-date reference materials...