TechDays 2010 Portugal Session Resources

ACA009 Creating Windows Phone Games

Here is the content from my session. Thanks for being a great audience.

• Slide Deck
• Demo1: DamageCalc Silverlight Application
• Demo2: PatternMatch Silverlight Game
• Demo3a: StarLight XNA Game using XNA Accelerometer Emulation 
• Demo03b: Windows XNA “Game” Serving Gamepad accelerometer
• Demo04: WP7 Phone XNA Multi-touch Piano
• Demo05: WP7 XNA 3D Triangle Drawing
• Demo06: WP7 XNA Particle System

The code works on the current version of the CTP for the Windows Phone system. You can download this from here. If you want to use demo 3B to serve out accelerometer information to your phone app make sure that the program is running with Administrator privileges, and that you have modified the URL in the Phone Starlight program to address this host (localhost should just work).

If you want to get started with Windows Phone you can find a list of useful lines (and some FAQ entries) here.

ACA004 Giving Robots Life with the .NET Micro Framework

I left Oscar the robot powered up overnight by mistake. I was very impressed to find that he still had plenty of battery power left this morning. Fortunately nobody had been sending movement commands to him via the secret URL otherwise he could have gone anywhere!

• Slide Deck
• Demo 01: A Robot Coward
• Demo 02: A Robot Coward with a Kill Switch and Lights
• Demo 03a: Micro Framework Web Host
• Demo 03b: Fez Micro Robot controller
• Demo 03C: WP7 Windows Phone Silverlight App to control a robot

If you want to get hold of a robot and Fez controllers you can go to:

http://www.tinyclr.com/

If you want to get hold of the Web Server board you can go here:

http://devicesolutions.net/Products/Tahoe.aspx

If you want the most powerful Micro Framework board I’ve ever seen you can go here:

http://www.ghielectronics.com/product/125

The Micro framework at Microsoft can be found here. There are links to platform manufacturers and a very useful forum. You can even propose enhancements to the platform.

http://www.microsoft.com/netmf/default.mspx

Comments

[João Martins]

Nice not present presentation at TechDays2010!
I suppose that the link to Demo 03a: Micro Framework Web Host is not correct, it points to the same file as Demo 02: A Robot Coward with a Kill Switch and Lights.

Cheers,
João Martins

[Gustavo]

Great sessions!

Best Regards

P.s. Thanks for the kitkats :)

[small kid from tech days pt]

wonderfull session, my regards!!!

[Rob]

Sorry about the wrong link. I've fixed it.