February 2009 - Posts

Please turn the fidelity higher please
24 February 09 10:13 PM | Coding4Fun | 0 Comments   

Jeremiah Morrill created an amazing media kit for WPF nicely named WPF Media Kit on CodePlex . In addition to just video, the kit comes with a MediaElement replacement, a VideoCaptureElement for web cams and a DVDPlayerElement that plays DVDs and supports Read More...

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Debug 4 Life
19 February 09 12:06 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

Bruno Terkaly’s blog has 10 lessons on how to debug an application.  Bruno’s first lesson is a debug recap and a general how to debug within Visual Studio . Why use a debugger when I can just do simple outputs to verify?  You have to remove Read More...

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A basic version of Tetris
17 February 09 01:52 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   

If you ever wondered how to build tetris, fear no longer.  The Small Basic team has a sample of Tetris in SmallBasic.  The post has all the source in their blog posting and can just be cut and copied to a fully functional game. You can grab Read More...

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Wiimote Virtual Reality Desktop
11 February 09 01:15 PM | Coding4Fun | 4 Comments   

In this article I want to introduce a Virtual Reality system that can be build with two Nintendo Wii Remotes (Wiimotes) and just a little extra hardware that costs less than $10 USD.   Timo Fleisch   Difficulty: Expert Time Required: 3-4 hours Read More...

Filed under: hardware, hardwarehacks

Crying for some graphs
06 February 09 09:43 AM | Coding4Fun | 2 Comments   

Over at the Mix labs, they’ve released Descry .  They have 4 separate visuals that are all open source and can be found over at CodePlex . The Obesity Epidemic addresses concerns about the ever growing obesity problem in the U.S. We utilize Silverlight Read More...

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Skype Voice Changer
02 February 09 10:19 AM | Coding4Fun | 26 Comments   

In this article I demonstrate how you can create your own audio effects in .NET to manipulate digital audio at the sample level. These effects are used to process MP3 files while they are being played back, and to process the real-time microphone input Read More...

Filed under: mash up, Audio