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WiiEarthVR Article and Source Code Posted

I previously talked about my WiiEarthVR project shown at PDC project, and now I have posted the article for the application up at the Coding4Fun site. Full source code is available. You’ll need some hardware to make this go, namely a Wiimote, Nunchuk, Wii Fit Balance Board and a pair of Vuzix...

Posted to BrianPeek.com (Weblog) by Brian Peek on Fri, Nov 14 2008
WiimoteLib v1.6 Released

A new version of my managed Wiimote library for .NET has been released. You can find version 1.6 up at CodePlex now. The changes are as follows: v1.6.0.0 Added "center of gravity" calculation to the Wii Fit Balance Board (thanks to Steven Battersby) Structs are now marked [Serializable...

Posted to BrianPeek.com (Weblog) by Brian Peek on Thu, Nov 13 2008
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 along with the PowerPoint slide deck. In this...

Posted to BrianPeek.com (Weblog) by Brian Peek on Fri, Oct 31 2008
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 times and code changes have broken my application...

Posted to BrianPeek.com (Weblog) by Brian Peek on Fri, Oct 24 2008
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 chapter of our new book “ Coding4Fun: 10 .NET...

Posted to BrianPeek.com (Weblog) by Brian Peek on Wed, Oct 15 2008
A Few New WiimoteLib Applications

I’ve received information on a few spiffy Wiimote projects using my Managed Wiimote Library in the last couple weeks that everyone should check out… Wiimote Tracking System Using 3 Wiimotes by Nikolai This project uses 2 Wiimotes as cameras and a 3rd covered in IR LEDs to create a tracking and gesture...

Posted to BrianPeek.com (Weblog) by Brian Peek on Wed, Oct 15 2008
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 Studio to Run on a PC, Xbox 360, or Microsoft Zune...

Posted to BrianPeek.com (Weblog) by Brian Peek on Fri, Sep 12 2008
Coding4Fun Book News

Now that we have finished writing the book , we finally have an official title and chapter listing. Someday we may even have a cover. The title has morphed into Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More and the final chapter listing (not necessarily...

Posted to BrianPeek.com (Weblog) by Brian Peek on Thu, Sep 4 2008
New BlueSoleil Driver Fixes BSOD

BlueSoleil has released a new version of their software which supposedly fixes the BSOD problem many people were having. If you were one of them, download and give it a try !

Posted to BrianPeek.com (Weblog) by Brian Peek on Thu, Aug 7 2008
Wiimote Smoothboard

I was contacted by Boon Jin Goh recently about his super awesome Wiimote Smoothboard application. Boon Jin took Johnny Lee ’s original Wiimote Whiteboard app and added a ton of functionality. What was a proof of concept or tech demo is now a fully functional electronic whiteboard capable...

Posted to BrianPeek.com (Weblog) by Brian Peek on Tue, Aug 5 2008

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