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Where am I? What am I doing?
31 August 07 03:17 PM | Coding4Fun | 5 Comments   
Do have a GPS receiver laying around? Do you travel? Do you blog? If you answered yes to these questions, you might be interested in this Windows Live Writer plugin. People who travel and like to blog about it can just click a button to insert their current Read More...
SweetSpot - The Beginnings of a Glucose Meter Downloader
17 April 07 01:44 AM | Coding4Fun | 11 Comments   
In this installment of "Some Assembly Required" column, Scott Hanselman, a Type 1 Diabetic, uses .NET to download blood sugar numbers from a Glucose Meter. Along the way he lays down the rough scaffolding for a plugin system so other meters could be added Read More...
Hardware Boneyard - Using the CueCat with .NET
06 March 07 01:26 AM | Coding4Fun | 4 Comments   
In this installment of "Some Assembly Required" column, Scott Hanselman borrows Travis Illig's CueCat BarCode scanner and creates a plugin for Windows Live Writer than lets him blog more easily about books he's reading. We decode the bar code info, change Read More...
Don't touch me! - Interfacing with a Fingerprint Reader
06 March 07 12:07 AM | Coding4Fun | 13 Comments   
In this installment of the "Some Assembly Required" column, Scott Hanselman creates a Family Fingerprint Manager using .NET 2.0 that interfaces with the Microsoft Fingerprint Reader and the GrFinger SDK from Griaule. Scott Hanselman Scott's Blog Difficulty: Read More...
Part 2: Controlling a Microbric Viper Robot with an IR Serial Port using .NET and PowerShell
19 February 07 05:17 PM | Coding4Fun | 1 Comments   
In this Part Two of "Some Assembly Required", Scott Hanselman extends his original Microbric Viper Robot/Iguanaworks IR solution to script-enable control of the robot with Lee Holme's "PowerShell LOGO." Background Scott Hanselman Scott's Blog Difficulty: Read More...
Controlling a Microbric Viper Robot with a custom IR Serial Port using .NET
01 December 06 11:10 PM | Coding4Fun | 4 Comments   
Summary: In this installment of "Some Assembly Required", Scott Hanselman teams up with the makers of the Microbric Viper Robot and the guys at Iguanaworks to create a custom IR serial port board to control the Viper Robot using .NET! Introduction The Read More...
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