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At Maker Faire UK I wanted to have an exhibit anyone could interact with. So I took along my robots and modified one of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS) Visual Programming Language (VPL) examples to allow both speech and Xbox controller control of them. Note to product teams: shorter product...

(Updated with live project download here ) Windows Media Center in Windows Vista (Home Premium and Ultimate) provides a wide range of services for viewing all kinds of media. One media is TV. There is a complete EPG maintained for you in Media Centre - the possibilities of what you could do with it,...

Multitouch devices are all the rage - they allow you and your friends to use your hands all together to control and interact with the computer. If you haven't seen one before take a look at this video: This is a multitouch application running on the Microsoft Surface - a multitouch device designed...

Computer programming is a great skill. The right computer programs can change the world! By writing a helpful computer program and making it available to others, you can help people all over the world do things. How powerful is that - as a computer programmer you can be a force for good in the world...

With Microsoft's games technology it is now easier then ever before to build a computer game. In this activity you will be able to follow a two tutorials; one builds a 2D game and the second builds a real 3D game! Each tutorial takes about one hour once you have your computer set up with all the...

'Just like we speak and understand English or Spanish or French, computers can understand programs written in certain languages. These are called programming languages. In the beginning there were just a few programming languages and they were really easy to learn and comprehend. But as computers...

I've been playing with some of B&Q's HomeEasy range of automation devices - switches and dimmers . These nicely designed pieces of kit are inexpensive - £20 will get you a remote and 3 on/off mains plugs. The remote controls and switches have a range of about 30metres - yes this is all...

At the Sneak Peek keynote we showed off the MSR Cambridge Family Archive project. A research project that uses a multitouch tabletop hardware solution to enable families to record, store and view digital images of items important to them. As well as the obvious photos and videos, the device had a camera...