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TwitterDrive

Welcome to the revolution in cloud storage…TwitterDrive! Learn more at Coding4Fun : Author Interview Technical Article :) Read More...

Posted to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Wed, Apr 1 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, .NET, Twitter
Mix09 Wiimote/C4F Meetup?

At the very last minute, I was lucky enough to receive a free ticket to Mix09 (thanks Jay !) and have decided to attend to attend. After posting about it on Twitter, Matthias Shapiro suggested that since both Johnny Lee and I will be there (Johnny...

Posted to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Thu, Feb 26 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, Wiimote, .NET, Mix09
Brian and Dan on .NET Rocks!

This week, Dan Fernandez and I had the opportunity to be on the .NET Rocks! show with Richard and Carl. We spent some time chatting about our Coding4Fun book (available at fine booksellers everywhere!) and several extremely interesting projects...

Posted to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Fri, Feb 6 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, Wiimote, .NET, Personal, Coding4Fun Book
WiimoteLib v1.7 Released

I have just put up the latest version of WiimoteLib at CodePlex . The changes for this release are: v1.7.0.0 Writing registers is now properly waiting for the Wiimote to reply before continuing...this removes all of the Thread.Sleep() calls and...

Posted to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Mon, Jan 19 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, Wiimote, .NET, Microsoft Robotics Studio, Hardware
Hanselminutes Podcast

At the very last minute before Scott left for Africa , Dan Fernandez and I were able to do a quick episode of Hanselminutes to promote our book . Have a listen to learn a bit more about our book, the projects it contains, how they were developed...

Posted to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Sun, Dec 7 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, Wiimote, .NET, Events, Coding4Fun Book
Coding4Fun Book News and Preview

I received my first copy of the book on Friday afternoon and it looks great! It is now also listed as “In Stock” on Amazon . Additionally, there is now a Google Preview of the book If you’d like to see a preview of the book, you can do so...

Posted to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Sat, Nov 29 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, .NET, Coding4Fun Book
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 to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Sat, Nov 15 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, .NET, Events, Light Sequencer, Hardware, Coding4Fun Book, TVUG
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...

Posted to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Fri, Nov 14 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, Wiimote, .NET, Hardware, Virtual Earth
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...

Posted to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Thu, Nov 13 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, Wiimote, .NET, Hardware
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...

Posted to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Sun, Nov 2 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, .NET, 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 to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Fri, Oct 31 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, Wiimote, .NET, Events, Coding4Fun Book, PDC2008, Virtual Earth
Coding4Fun Book Chapter Teaser for PDC

At PDC2008 we have been giving away printouts of our first chapter and table of contents for our new book, “ Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More ” to anyone who drops by the Coding4Fun area. ...

Posted to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Wed, Oct 29 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, .NET, XNA, 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 to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Fri, Oct 24 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, Wiimote, .NET, Events, Hardware, PDC2008, Virtual Earth
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 to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Wed, Oct 15 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, Wiimote, .NET, Events, Hardware, Coding4Fun Book, Gaming, PDC2008
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...

Posted to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Thu, Sep 4 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, Wiimote, .NET, Personal, XNA, Windows Home Server, Light Sequencer, Hardware, Coding4Fun Book, Visual Studio, Gaming
SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 Express

I ran into a bit of weirdness yesterday when trying to install SQL Server 2008 . I have Visual Studio 2008 installed as well as a couple of the Visual Studio 2008 Express products (for testing solutions for the Coding4Fun site and the upcoming book...

Posted to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Wed, Aug 13 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, .NET, Visual Studio, SQL Server
WiimoteLib v1.5.1 Released

Oops. Apparently the one new thing in version 1.5, Balance Board support, was actually broken. I have just put version 1.5.1 up at CodePlex which fixes the Balance Board operation. Sorry about that… Read More...

Posted to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Wed, Jun 11 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, Wiimote, .NET
WiimoteLib v1.5 Released

I’m really cranking out the releases these days. Today I have released WiimoteLib v1.5 at CodePlex . The big news is that the Wii Fit Balance Board is now supported. The balance board is simply a very heavy piece of plastic with 4 weight...

Posted to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Mon, Jun 9 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, Wiimote, .NET
WiimoteLib v1.4 Released

In an effort to put out more frequent builds with fewer changes, I’ve released WiimoteLib v1.4 to CodePlex . This release contains the single most requested feature: multiple Wiimote support. I’m very interested to hear bug reports and...

Posted to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Tue, Jun 3 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, Wiimote, .NET
Coding4Fun Book for Sale at Amazon!

Our book is already up for sale at Amazon! I'm trying not to be a totally shameless shill, but this is exciting. Feel free to get your pre-order in early. :) Read More...

Posted to Brian Peek [MVP C#] by on Thu, May 29 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Coding4Fun, .NET, Personal

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