June 2008 - Posts

On the 14th day of Windows Mobile, What did someone develop for me?
30 June 08 12:08 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
Chris Craft decided to do 30 days of Windows Mobile development .  Seeing some of the applications Chris created, I must say, I was a tad jealous.  Getting past my bruised ego, I started checking out the applications he wrote and saw some really Read More...
Filed under:
Dream-Build-Play, v2
27 June 08 03:05 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
This year the XNA team have up’ed the ante with their Dream-Build-Play challenge . You can have a team between 1 to 7 people and have to create a game for the Xbox 360. There are $75,000 in prizes along with a chance to receive an Xbox LIVE publishing Read More...
BlueBoss - Bluetooth Proximity Detection
26 June 08 03:09 PM | Coding4Fun | 12 Comments   
Summary: Bluetooth is now found in a variety of devices and enable the user to use wireless accessories.  The Bluetooth protocol allows a user to “discover” any device that is in proximity to your Bluetooth radio.  Why not see who is in proximity Read More...
iTunes, YouTube, WoW oh my
23 June 08 04:58 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
Dan Fernandez had been keeping busy and recently did a talk over at TechEd for Coding4Fun .  He did a talk on programming using the iTunes, YouTube, Zune, Vista Peer-to-Peer, and World of Warcraft API sets.  Here are some direct source links. Read More...
Filed under:
WPF Custom Screen Saver Art
20 June 08 11:24 AM | Coding4Fun | 11 Comments   
Summary Creating custom wallpaper is easy. But what about custom screen savers? This post will detail how to build a custom saver using Windows Presentation Framework (WPF). The posted code also provides some insight on how to create interesting particle Read More...
I can prove you have shifty eyes
19 June 08 03:54 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
Zafer has created an awesome webcam application to track your eyes with C++ .  The project has 3 parts, face detection, eye detection and eye feature extration.  Zafer uses two different methods for the face detection too!  He implemented Read More...
Filed under:
Smile! LED photo booth @ Maker Faire 2008
17 June 08 01:50 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
Andy Konkol for Maker Faire 2008 created a LED photo booth using c# and some BetaBrite Prism signs .  Using the BetaBrite API written by Jeff Atwood (and ported by me), DirectShow lib and some additional code, Andy created a full blown a scaleable Read More...
Filed under:
Webcam tracking on steroids
15 June 08 09:32 AM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
I found this while doing This week on Channel 9 .  CamSpace is a webcam tracking system that looks utterly amazing.  I wish I knew more other than the video but their blog / site is a tad sparse on information. Read More...
Filed under:
RetroCommand
09 June 08 08:01 AM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
In this article, I will discuss how I have built RetroCommand, a Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 version of a classic arcade game ( play here ).  I will explain how I used Expression Blend along with some of the new and interesting Silverlight 2.0 and WCF Read More...
Baby Angry! SMASH!
07 June 08 05:12 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   
Scott Hanselman has created a rather amusing application called Baby Smash.  He has it open source over at CodePlex and it is written in c# and WPF. He created the application for his 2yr old along with to learn WPF.  Not only did he just create Read More...
Filed under:
So many finger tips on me
02 June 08 09:35 AM | Coding4Fun | 3 Comments   
Seth Sanders created a low cost multi-touch system called MT mini . It uses TouchLib which is a C++ library ( Anyone want to see if they can't get it working with .Net? ) I'm not sure but I think a few of the demos were from the TouchLib system, the keyboard Read More...
Filed under:

Search

This Blog

Syndication

Page view tracker