On Tuesday in our weekly "Dev Discussion" meeting we had a special event called the Innovation Expo where people basically just showed off cool projects they have done in their spare time (spare time - what's that?!).

Jay showed a digital picture frame he built from an old laptop running Windows CE. Jason showed a new version of his ever popular MSN Virtual Earth mobile client. Nathan showed a content publishing project he's been working on. Dave showed a flexible application framework, and Joe showed an RSS reader he'd written.

Brian definitely had the coolest demo - he made a robot for which the "brain" is his Windows Mobile Smartphone! It's "built on top of the SDK" (he used an SDK DVD to mount the head rotator). There's a microcontroller for the motors and sensors which he built - it communicates with the Smartphone via Bluetooth. He can control it remotely and it can do multiple things - move around, play sounds, stream the camera over Wi-Fi. He's written all of it in .NET CF and is trying to use as many APIs as possible. Very cool! He assures me he'll be blogging about it somewhere with instructions and pictures and everything sometime soon.

Posted by James