Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0)
Pete Brown writes on a variety of topics from XAML with the Windows Runtime (WinRT), .NET programming using C#, WPF, Microcontroller programming with .NET Microframework, .NET Gadgeteer, Windows on Devices, and even plain old C, to raising two children in the suburbs of Maryland, woodworking, CNC and generally "making physical stuff". Oh, and Pete loves retro technology, especially Commodore (C64 and C128). If the content interests you, please subscribe using the subscription link to the right of every page.
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The Maker Geek Roundup aggregates information of interest to
makers everywhere. Topics include .NET Micro Framework, Arduino,
AVR and other MCUs, CNC, 3d Printing, Robotics, Microsoft Robotics
Studio, Electronics, General Maker stuff, and more. If you have
something interesting you've done or have run across, or you blog
regularly on the topics included here, please send me the URL and
...
Published
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 |
Tagged:
Commodore, Gadgets, geek, c64, Netduino, Electronics, Gadgeteer, 3d-Printing, MakerRoundup, Maker, AVR, Arduino |
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The Maker Geek Roundup aggregates information of interest to
makers everywhere. Topics include .NET Micro Framework, Arduino,
AVR and other MCUs, CNC, 3d Printing, Robotics, Microsoft Robotics
Studio, Electronics, General Maker stuff, and more. If you have
something interesting you've done or have run across, or you blog
regularly on the topics included here, please send me the URL and
...
Published
Monday, June 18, 2012 |
Tagged:
Synthesizer, Netduino, Gadgeteer, 3d-Printing, MakerRoundup, Lego, Maker, AVR, Arduino |
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The Maker Geek Roundup aggregates information of interest to
makers everywhere. Topics include .NET Micro Framework, Arduino,
AVR and other MCUs, CNC, 3d Printing, Robotics, Microsoft Robotics
Studio, Electronics, General Maker stuff, and more. If you have
something interesting you've done or have run across, or you blog
regularly on the topics included here, please send me the URL and
...
Published
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 |
Tagged:
CNC, Commodore, Synthesizer, Hardware, c64, Netduino, Micro+Framework, Electronics, Kinect, 3d-Printing, MakerRoundup, Maker |
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The Maker Geek Roundup aggregates information of interest to
makers everywhere. Topics include .NET Micro Framework, Arduino,
AVR and other MCUs, CNC, 3d Printing, Robotics, Microsoft Robotics
Studio, Electronics, General Maker stuff, and more. If you have
something interesting you've done or have run across, or you blog
regularly on the topics included here, please send me the URL and
...
Published
Saturday, April 21, 2012 |
Tagged:
.NET, CNC, Commodore, Synthesizer, c64, Netduino, Electronics, Gadgeteer, GHI-FEZ, 3d-Printing, MakerRoundup, Maker, Arduino |
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Warning: this is as much a rant as anything remotely
useful. Oh, and don't comment without reading the whole thing
:)
The Internet is not a democracy. More specifically, blog
commenting systems aren't a democracy. Blog authors and
administrators get to decide which comments show up on their
blog, and which do not. On my own blog, I remove spam
messages (or I let Akismet do it in most...
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For those of you in the US, today is Pi day : 3/14. For those
countries that would call this 14-3, bear with me, as you don't
get any pi pfftth :)
The Maker Geek Roundup aggregates information of interest to
makers everywhere. Topics include .NET Micro Framework, Arduino,
AVR and other MCUs, CNC, 3d Printing, Robotics, Microsoft Robotics
Studio, Electronics, General Maker st...
Published
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 |
Tagged:
.NET, CNC, Commodore, Synthesizer, c64, Netduino, Electronics, Gadgeteer, 3d-Printing, MakerRoundup, Maker, Arduino, PIC |
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The Maker Geek Roundup aggregates information of interest to
makers everywhere. Topics include .NET Micro Framework, Arduino,
AVR and other MCUs, CNC, 3d Printing, Robotics, Microsoft Robotics
Studio, Electronics, General Maker stuff, and more. If you have
something interesting you've done or have run across, or you blog
regularly on the topics included here, please send me the URL and
...
Published
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 |
Tagged:
Commodore, c64, Netduino, Micro+Framework, Robotics, Electronics, Gadgeteer, 3d-Printing, MakerRoundup, Maker, MCU, Arduino |
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The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WinRT XAML, WPF, Silverlight, Visual
C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows
7, Windows
Phone, Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services and
more. Sometimes I even include a little jQuery and HTML5. If you
have something interesting you've done or have run across, or you
blog regu...
Published
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 |
Tagged:
.NET, Silverlight, 3d, XNA, CPP, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Kinect, Windows8, XAML |
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The Maker Geek Roundup aggregates information of interest to
makers everywhere. Topics include .NET Micro Framework, CNC, 3d
Printing, Robotics, Microsoft Robotics Studio, Electronics, General
Maker stuff, and more. If you have something interesting you've
done or have run across, or you blog regularly on the topics
included here, please send me the URL and brief description via the
con...
Published
Saturday, January 7, 2012 |
Tagged:
.NET, Hobbies, Synthesizer, geek, Micro+Framework, Electronics, 3d-Printing, MakerRoundup, Maker, AVR |
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The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WinRT XAML, WPF, Silverlight, Visual
C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows
7, Windows
Phone, Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services and
more. Sometimes I even include a little jQuery and HTML5. If you
have something interesting you've done or have run across, or you
blog regu...
Published
Monday, November 28, 2011 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, 3d, XNA, Surface, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Kinect, Windows8, XAML |
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Well, I've completed the initial writing anyway. Anyone who has
written a book understands the, umm, pleasure of the multiple
editing cycles which shall follow. I have my normal development
editor review Thursday afternoon, and then it's turned over for
tech review the following week. Tom is really going to have his
hands full with the 1191 pages this book came in at before editing
and ...
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The Maker Geek Roundup aggregates information of interest to
makers everywhere. Topics include .NET Micro Framework, CNC, 3d
Printing, Robotics, Microsoft Robotics Studio, Electronics, General
Maker stuff, and more. If you have something interesting you've
done or have run across, or you blog regularly on the topics
included here, please send me the URL and brief description via the
con...
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This past weekend, I made a trip to NYC with my son, primarily
to attend Maker Faire 2011 NYC. This was my first time at a real
maker faire, and my first time at the Hall of Science in New York
City. The Maker Faire is a family-friendly event. IMHO, that means
school-age, as the under 5 set will get bored and tired fairly
quickly.
The Maker Faire covered the gamut of things th...
Published
Monday, September 19, 2011 |
Tagged:
.NET, CNC, Micro+Framework, Robotics, Electronics, Kinect, Gadgeteer, GHI-FEZ, Make, Robotics-Studio, 3d-Printing |
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One of the most commonly requested features for Silverlight is some sort of 3d support. Within that, what many folks have expressed real interest in is the ability to do a perspective / non-affine transform of objects in space. Well, the Silverlight team delivered on that one for sure. Not only do we have the perspective transform (which could have been accomplished using shaders or the new bit...
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The first real 3d modeling tool I used was one of the earlier Windows versions of trueSpace. While I was never impressed with the rendering engine back then (it has improved over the years) I really cut my teeth on modeling using that tool. The workspace was somewhat unique as far as modeling tools goes, encouraging a more immersive 3d editing experience vs. the usual 3-view approach. Cal...
Published
Saturday, February 9, 2008 |
Tagged:
3d, trueSpace |
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I finally decided to take a pop at using Windows Live Writer to write for my blog. While Community Server has a reasonable editor, it is an online in-browser editing experience and can suffer from the usual shortcomings that architecture has. Creating thumbnails and uploading images was definitely a chore, and Live Writer takes care of all that junk for me. Below is a random photo from my file...
Published
Sunday, January 27, 2008 |
Tagged:
General, 3d |
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I'm always amazed at what people can create with the most minimal of tools. In this case, a 3d library for Silverlight 1.0, written all in javascript. The animation looks pretty smooth too.Check it out Kit3d at Mark Dawson's site.
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Every once in a while I check back in with the demo scene. I always enjoyed the cracktros on the commodore 64, and later the cool demos by Future Crew and others in DOS.This is a pretty new demo, and it is very cool, especially when you consider the tiny size of the exe.Check it out. fr-041: debrisMy old p4 with the GeForce FX would only run at 800x600 with decent speed. A newer box w...
