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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...

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...

Here's a couple of pictures of the crowds at the Sensor and Location kiosk on the PDC floor in Los Angeles: ( flickr page )

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...

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...

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.

The blog has been pretty quiet for the last few months because I've been working hard on our latest, formerly top secret, APIs-- the Sensor and Location Platform for Windows 7! I've been busting at the seams wanting to write about this stuff, but alas...

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...

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...

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...

Well, it's my first TechEd...this place is huge! And it's Geek Heaven, for sure. Everything you ever wanted to know about Microsoft but were afraid to ask. And the food! It's so...well, forget the food, the technology rocks. Today we unveiled a bunch...

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...

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...

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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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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.

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.)

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Learn to develop a SideShow gadget in C# in under an hour! Try WIN04-HOL Writing Gadgets for Windows SideShow with Microsoft Visual C# If you're not at Tech Ed this year, we'll be posting the Hands On Labs online as soon as we can. Check the blogs...

UTILITY: Microsoft releases Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile ... the unwired - Muenchen,Germany Not yet mass-market ready, Microsoft's Windows SideShow for Windows Mobile Developer Preview v0.01 is an application for Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile...

If you're a WoW fan, try out Ed Priest's SideShow gadget: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=d698405a-fea7-4197-aabb-35422dddd927

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Some post on the blog has to be the first one. So, here it is. I'll start with a bit about me, because it's my blog, after all. I've been at Microsoft for over 7 years, most of those spent in working on Windows Media projects, such as the Windows Media...