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Using the Kinect and a projector as a movement teacher

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Today's inspirational project is an example of how the Kinect can again be used in an unusual and unique way to teach and training "movement."LightGuide: Kinect Teaches MovementThe latest job for a Kinect is to teach you how to move. In principle, it could teach you how to play the cello, perform martial arts or dance. But my guess is that you still need talent.There have been a number of Kinect-related announcements from Microsoft Research recently but LightGuide if perhaps the most innovative in...

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Kinect-cart... A prototype Kinect-enabled Shopping cart

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Today's inspirational project shows off a usage of the Kinect that you might not have ever imagined... I mean who'd have thought of mashing up a Kinect with a...Kinect-enabled shopping cart is smarter than the shopperMicrosoft has just demoed a Kinect-enabled prototype shopping cart designed to take the guesswork out of your trip to the grocery store. All of the guesswork. In fact, all you are required to do is upload a shopping list and place items in the cart.The cart utilizes the Kinect and other...

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Operating Kinect - The Kinect in the operating room

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Today's projects highlight two inspirational stories about how the Kinect might be used to help surgeonsKinect imaging lets surgeons keep their focusTHE surgeon enters the operating theatre, covered in sterile blue scrubs. Machines beep and hiss. Nurses wait, tools at the ready: scalpel, forceps, bandage, Xbox... Xbox?On Tuesday last week, a surgeon at Guy's and St Thomas' hospital in London began trials of a new device that uses an Xbox Kinect camera to sense body position. Just by waving his arms...

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Simple variable dump

The Code Project Latest Articles — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

This class dump any .Net object properties to your output window....

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[Special Edition] Kinect for Windows SDK v1.5 now available

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Kinect for Windows SDK 1.5 - Face Tracking, Seated Skeletal Tracking, Kinect Studio, & MoreRob Relyea, a Principal Program Manager on the Kinect for Windows team joins us again on Channel 9 to discuss all of the new features with the 1.5 release of the Kinect for Windows SDK.Kinect for Windows Blog - Kinect for Windows Runtime and SDK Version 1.5 ReleasedI am pleased to announce that today we have released version 1.5 of the Kinect for Windows runtime and SDK. Additionally, Kinect for Windows hardware...

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Project Detroit: Lighting System

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, we give a detailed look into the external lighting system of Project Detroit, the Microsoft-West Coast Custom Mustang creation. If you're not already familiar with this project, you can find more information here.OverviewThe external lighting system for Project Detroit is run on a web server on a Netduino Plus, which uses the .NET Micro Framework (NETMF). To get an accelerated start, we leveraged code from the CodePlex project Netduino Helpers to control the AdaFruit LPD8806 LED...

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Got an Kinect App? Need a web site? Here`s a template for you...

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

So you've been working on your Kinect app or project, banging away night and day in Visual Studio and you're ready to show it off to the world. But now you need a web site too. It sure would be nice if there were some kind of Kinect App Web Site template available...Kinect App SiteThe Single-Page Kinect App Site template is an easily configured, simple template with all the elements in place, intended as a quick-start for any Kinect developer to promote their app.View the default site here: Kinect...

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LLBLGen Pro feature highlights: assigning attributes based on rules to properties in generated code.

Frans Boumas blog — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

(This post is part of a series of posts about features of the LLBLGen Pro system) One of the things which makes some people hate generated code is that it's effectively 'read-only' code: changing it will make you run the risk that your changes are likely gone when you re-generate the code as the files are overwritten by the code generator. The code generated by LLBLGen Pro has several facilities to circumvent this aspect: it offers extensibility through either user-code regions, partial classes,...

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A triple dose of the .NET Micro Framework. Netduino, .NET Gadgeteer and a FEZ Hydra Basic Kit

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Today's Hardware Friday is a triple dose of .NET Micro Framework and .NET Gadgeteer getting started, into, kicked off, hooked, what are they and getting started posts.From a slide deck and great link round-up my Pete Brown, to watching him geek out for an hour to a getting started with FEZ Hydra Basic Kit post by Ian Lee, Sr. it's all here. If at the end of this, your "I wanna build something" itch isn't asking for attention...The .NET Micro Framework and .NET GadgeteerAt the South Florida Code Camp...

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Kin-Educate

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Today's inspirational project (with download coming soon) is a great example of how the Kinect continues to help drive innovation in learning.Kin-Educate: An educational game for the KinectKin-educate is part of a research project exploring innovative ways to interact with computers, and what better tool to use than the Kinect? But, what kind of Kinect application to interact with? Well, since its release the Kinect very quickly became synonymous with education. Developers could see the potential,...

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.NET 4.5 Improvements for Cloud and Server Applications

Somasegars WebLog — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

I’ve had multiple meetings recently with customers and press where the topic of .NET development has come up, particularly as it relates to the cloud and server. They’ve heard about the extensive work we’ve done with Visual Studio 11 to enable the client-side development of Metro style apps for Windows 8 using C#, Visual Basic, C++, and JavaScript, and they’re curious to learn what improvements have been made for server-side development using .NET From my perspective,...

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Put down the measuring tape. Using the Kinect to find your height

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

When I saw this, the first thing I thought was just how cool a thing an amusement park could build with this. Gone could be the days of the "You must be taller than this bar," instead replaced with an interactive, themed for the park, height measurement experience. Image standing there with a virtual Mickey or Donald or Bugs Bunny and using the Kinect to measure your children's height, compared to them? (Can't you just see Mickey holding up his virtual hand over a child's head and saying, "Great!...

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""Game Development with XNA and Microsoft Technologies: Kinect Development""

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Teaching resources have a special place in my heart and in seeing this course, 34 class rooms sessions, with all the lesson plans, resources, labs, etc for learning to develop with the Kinect, well, how could I not share it?Game Development with XNA and Microsoft Technologies: Kinect DevelopmentThese Kinect lessons are intended to be project-based classes for high school and older students, with the teacher introducing the topic, showing a quick demo, discussing the code with the students, and then...

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Project Detroit: An Overview

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

In this article, we will give an overview of the technical side of Project Detroit, the Microsoft-West Coast Custom Mustang creation. If you're not already familiar with this project, you can find more information here. Key Design DecisionsIts important to keep in mind that this car was built for a TV show with a set schedule. As a result, there are a number of unique design decisions that came into play.ScheduleWorking backwards, the reveal for the car was set for Monday November 28, 2011 at the...

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Kinecting to your Anatomy with S.A.G.E.

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Today's inspirational project is one that you just have to see to believe. It shows how the Kinect, melded with a projector can make learning (and more) into something fairly amazing...Spatial Augmented Game EnvironmentThe Spatial Augmented Game Environment, known as S.A.G.E., is a project that marries the spatial recognition of the Xbox 360 Kinect and a projector to create a completely unique learning experience. Created by University of South Florida's Computer Science & Engineering research team,...

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""Recovering Gracefully from Loss of Skeletal Tracking""

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Today's project is a sharing of lessons learned by Carl Franklin while creating his GesturePak project (GesturePak (Beta) for the Kinect - A "no code" gesture recording and matching library)Recovering Gracefully from Loss of Skeletal Tracking (Kinect For Windows)The Kinect For Windows SDK v1.0 is awesome, but it doesn't recover well when it loses sight of you whilst tracking your skeleton. With a timer control and a little code to restart the KinectSensor, you can recover is 5 seconds or less.This...

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Making beautiful MIDI music (with .Net Gadgeteer)

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Today's Hardware Friday post is in an area that I've not cover much, making music with .Net Gadgeteer projects using one of the older digital interfaces around, MIDI.Gadgeteer and MIDI: Making Music with MicrocontrollersAt the end of what's been a kind of tough week, with a spring cold making its way through my entire family (one of the perils of having young kids at home), I got a nifty package in the mail. Inside was an anti-static foil bag containing the parts for a nifty addition to my Gadgeteer...

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WebSocketing the Kinect with Kinection

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

This week's project provides another means to remotely connect to a Kinect, this time using Websockets...Valentia KinectionValentia Kinection is open source community project. Purpose of Kinection is to provide user ability to publish Kinect data on socket, which then can be utilised on remote clients or HTML5 web pages using socket.Project DescriptionValentia Kinection serves as a pathway for transmission of data from Kinetic device to the web client. The service extracts data from the device and...

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Kinect to Mayhem

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Have you heard of Mayhem (and here)?"An open source application with a near-zero learning curve. Mayhem provides a collection of triggers events and reactions, allowing non-programmers to use their computers to automate anything! What sort of things? Chase your cat off the couch automatically. Receive a text message when your physical mail arrives. Advance to the next slide in your presentation when you wave your hand. Update your Facebook status when the weather changes. The possibilities are endless...."Now...

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Vodigi - interactive digital signage, now with Kinect support

MSDN: Coding4Fun — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The rest of this week is going to be a Kinect on CodePlex week. The first is an interesting project that provides a glimpse of what we're seeing the Kinect used often with, interactive digital signage...VodigiProject DescriptionVodigi is a free, open source, interactive digital signage software solution that offers all the features you need to promote and advertise your products and services.With Vodigi, you can have a virtual sales team dedicated to promoting and advertising your products and services......

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