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Thursday, December 30th, 2010

The videos from PDC, Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference back in October are now online. One of the most interesting videos is Anders Hejlsberg, a technical fellow at the developer devision in Microsoft, talking about asynchronous programming and how it will be integrated with the new versions of C# and VB coming out soon. The team [...]

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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

I have written and talked in the past on the subject of hacking Kinect, and how awesome it would be to hook it up to our robot project at Uni. Well I’m pleased to say that last week we achieved robot arm control with the Kinect sensor, using it to measure arm position and relay [...]

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Thursday, November 18th, 2010

I’ve been busy hacking around with Kinect, the Xbox 360 “controllerless controller” I’ve been writing a lot about recently. Yesterday I got it up and running under Ubuntu, and after that I got a very simple “nearest object” algorithm running on it. Check out the videos below! Also – the code.

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Friday, November 12th, 2010

So following up from my early preview video and unboxing of Kinect earlier in the week, I’ve finally got together the video showing an actual demo that I was in control of for Microsoft’s new Xbox accessory. Check it out below! (Click through to YouTube for it in glorious HD).

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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Following up from the exclusive Kinect videos last week, here is the unboxing of the Kinect device just hours after it launched in the UK. I’ve had a bit of a play and it is brilliant, but there are all kinds of gameplay and action videos in store for you so I won’t spoil the [...]

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