As a means of procrastination while still having Visual Studio open, I buckled and installed Visual Studio Achievements as an extension to it. So now whenever I do some code well (or, apparently, badly) it’ll let me know and post it to the website.

Visual Studio Achievements

Metronomes. Key to any aspiring (or even professional) musician. They help you keep in time with the music you’re playing and without it we would be making a complete mess.

Creating a metronome effect in C#

This may sound a little “…hang on, that’s old news!” but nope. February 1st signalled the release of the first official Kinect for Windows SDK sans its ‘beta’ tag. It’s the first official release of the SDK which is released alongside a Kinect designed for use with Windows itself.

Kinect for Windows SDK v1 is released!

Moto is my graduate project on my university course. It involves playing air instruments on the Kinect by mapping them to your body. But of course no band would be complete without at least one guitarist, so that’s what I’ll show you now.

Making a guitar for the Kinect SDK

Here’s another video I made, by request, on how to move the Kinect using code. Kind of like how it does it at the start of each Xbox game, but only manually. If I ever learn how it can judge where to look automatically, I’ll let you know.

Controlling the Kinect’s Tilt in C#

Kinect’s just over a year old, now. Despite earlier this week Microsoft telling us they sold 18 million units in it's first year, scenes like this are all too familiar...

Kinect and it’s usability issues

I’ve created a 13-minute video to get you running your first Kinect for Windows code, going through every stage right from opening up a blank C# and WPF project.

Getting Started with Kinect SDK Beta 2

The pitch has been pitched, and it’s just waiting for the results of that pitch to make their way to me.

The Pitch

Natural User Interfaces are great. They aren’t just an input method, but they adapt to who is using them or indeed how they are using them. We could go into the complexes of NUI here but I’m not going to. Instead I’m going to give you an alternative to the gesture-based user interface you’re used to with Kinect – speech recognition and voice navigation.

Speech Recognition with the Kinect SDK

A while back I detailed my first foray into Kinect development. Now I’ve learnt a bit since then, which includes a much simpler way of taking a picture using the Kinect’s RGB camera and saving that to the computer.

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