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After hours
Viral, Paul, Jamie
Agenda
• Playing with Live Services• Next Xbox Experience• Home automation• Mesh• Break• DIY Corner• Windows Home Server• Windows on a netbook?
Blade Runner
Next Xbox Experience
GameComponent
DrawableGameComponent
XNA Games Studio
• Matrix math• HLSL• Windows, Xbox
360, Zune• Click Once• Community
Games
Content pipeline
Fixed/Variable refresh rate
Update
Draw
Game Window
Home Automation – The Vision
Home Automation
• Hardware– HomeEasy - B&Q– ByeByeStandby – Letsautomate.com
• Software– mControl– Harmony Professional– xPL - xPLMonkey
Break!
DIY Corner
• In Car Entertainment• The Ultimate Digital Photo Frame• Exploring Multitouch – cheaply!• On the frontier of service robotics
ICE, ICE – baby!
• http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Ori-Amiga-Mesh-Mobile/
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Featured Services in this section:
Windows Live Mesh
The Ultimate Digital Photo Frame
How small is your PC?
Pico-ITX EPIA motherboardCase Measurements: 96.15 x 46.60 x 175mm (3.79 x 1.83 x 6.89in); Volume: 0.78 litres.
See more at: http://mini-itx.com
Windows for free?
• Free evaluation licenses– Windows CE– Windows XP Embedded
• Enables hobbyist to build custom images for specific devices
• USB 2.0 enables boot from USB stick• OS Images expire between 90 and 180 days
Multitouch
• Surface video• Windows 7 multi-touch
Or parody
DIY Multitouch
• Build your own– Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR)
• DIY: Multitouch experience in 5mins!!– NUIGroup
A1-DW
MRDS
• Free for non-commercial use• Visual Programming Language• Physics based Visual Simulation• Get it from: Microsoft.com/Robotics• Awesome fun with RoboChamps.Com• Demo: Live with Create and Xbox Controller
Windows Home Server
Green WHS Case studies
• EPIA MII 1Ghz VIA CPU, 30W• Dual core, 2Gb RAM, 1TB HDD, 90W
Windows on a netbook
• Windows 7 PDC build (6801)• Netbook installs– Acer Aspire One– MSI Wind– EEE PC 901
Resources
• Blogs– Paul’s - Wotudo.net– Viral’s – www.Haveyouseenmystapler.net– Jamie’s – www.JamieEBurgess.com
• User groups– XNA-UK.net– TheDigitalLifeStyle.com– NUIGroup.net