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• Animated Musical Holiday Lights at TVUG

  I’ll be presenting a session on building your own holiday musical light show using Phidget boards and .NET at this month’s Tech Valley User Group .  I’ve previously written an article about this topic on the Coding4Fun site, and there will be a full... Posted Nov 15 2008, 04:57 AM by Brian Peek with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Coding4Fun, Events, Light Sequencer, Coding4Fun Book, Hardware, TVUG

• This Week On Channel 9

  While at PDC2008 we shot an episode of This Week on Channel 9 . If you feel the need to waste 13 minutes of your life on a PDC recap with me, Dan Fernandez , Scott Hanselman and Clint Rutkas , then this is the video for you. I have embedded the video... Posted Nov 02 2008, 05:27 PM by Brian Peek with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, Coding4Fun, Events, PDC2008

• TL39: Coding4Fun: Windows Presentation Foundation Animation, YouTube, iTunes, Twitter, and Nintendo's Wiimote

  Well, PDC2008 is over.  I had a lot of fun, met a ton of interesting and fun people, and learned about a lot of exciting new technologies.  I hope to make it back out there next year. Our PDC2008 session video has been posted up at Channel 9... Posted Oct 31 2008, 04:14 PM by Brian Peek with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, Coding4Fun, Wiimote, Events, Virtual Earth, Coding4Fun Book, PDC2008

• WiiEarthVR at PDC

  Time to talk a little bit about my PDC demo… About a year ago, I wrote an application to control Virtual Earth 3D with the Wiimote named WiiEarth and a corresponding Coding4Fun article on how it was done.  Since that time VE3D has been updated several... Posted Oct 24 2008, 02:40 AM by Brian Peek with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Coding4Fun, Wiimote, Events, Virtual Earth, Hardware, PDC2008

• PDC2008

  Anyone heading out to PDC2008 this year?  I will be in attendance with (hopefully!) a new Wiimote project and perhaps a few old ones as well.  More details on that when the project is a tiny bit further.  We will also be giving away a free... Posted Oct 15 2008, 03:43 AM by Brian Peek with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, Coding4Fun, Wiimote, Events, Coding4Fun Book, Hardware, PDC2008

• VSLive NY Sessions Posted

  Thanks to everyone that attended my VSLive NY session.  I hope it was informative.  I have posted the slide-decks and source code for both of my sessions so you can tinker with the projects on your own. Creating a Simple 2D Game Using XNA Game... Posted Sep 12 2008, 03:10 AM by Brian Peek with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Gaming, .NET, Wiimote, XNA, Events, Hardware, VSLiveNY

• VSLive! New York

  I have been selected to present two sessions at VSLive! New York this September.  Here are the abstracts: Title: Creating a Simple 2D Game Using XNA Game Studio to Run on a PC, Xbox 360 or Microsoft Zune Date/Time: Wednesday, September 10th at 3... Posted Jun 27 2008, 05:27 PM by Brian Peek with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Wiimote, XNA, Events, Hardware

• Tech Valley Code Camp Session Posted

  I have posted the slide deck and sample code used during my Introduction to Microsoft Robotics Studio with Lego NXT session given at the Tech Valley Code Camp on April 19, 2008. Thanks to all who attended my session and the camp. Looking forward to the... Posted Apr 29 2008, 03:55 AM by Brian Peek with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, LegoNXT, Events, Microsoft Robotics Studio

• Silence...

  Where have I been? Sadly, nowhere good. My father passed away extremely unexpectedly on March 4, 2008 and life has been hectic and chaotic ever since. I'm finally back into some sort of routine, so it's time to update here and explain what's going on... Posted Apr 15 2008, 06:12 PM by Brian Peek with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Personal, .NET, Coding4Fun, LegoNXT, Wiimote, Events

• Tech Valley User Group Session Posted

  I have posted the slide deck and sample code from my " Interfacing External Hardware Using Managed Code " session that I gave earlier this evening. I hope everyone that attended enjoyed the presentation and got something useful out of it. Other than the... Posted Feb 19 2008, 10:10 PM by Brian Peek with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, Events