October 2008 Blog Posts
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 session you will learn about four of our current projects: WiiEarthVR by myself, InnerTube by Dan Fernandez, TwitterVote by Clint Rutkas and BabySmash by Scott Hanselman. If you’d like to check out the video, you can watch it “live” or download...
Update: Looks like the link has expired since PDC is now over. Thanks to all who downloaded! 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. We ran out of copies early today, so for those of you at PDC (and anyone else for that matter) that’s interested in taking a look at the (not really properly formatted in all places) first chapter of the book...
Update 1/20/09: Here’s a vid from Channel9 showing the WiiEarthVR project: 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. Since their API is undocumented and unsupported, it was bound to happen. Here’s a video of the old WiiEarth application: ...
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 Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More” to lucky PDC attendees at the O'Reilly booth. I will also be co-presenting a lunch session at PDC: Title: Coding4Fun: Windows Presentation Foundation Animation, YouTube, iTunes, Twitter, and Nintendo's Wiimote ...
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 recognition system. Check out the video below. Wiirtual.Earth - A WPF Virtual Earth 3D Experiment featuring the Nintendo Wiimote by Michael Koester A pretty spiffy WPF UI integrating Virtual Earth 3D and the Wiimote. Source code and more...