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.
Archive for tag:
Robotics
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At several recent events (VSLive Redmond, thatConference, the
Heartland Developer Conference and more), I've had a neat little
.NET Micro Framework robot with me. The remote control for the
robot is a Windows 8 tablet running a simple Modern UI/Windows
Store app I wrote in C#/XAML. The example shows both how you can
use C# skills to build robots, and also how flexible the new
Windows St...
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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, July 23, 2012 |
Tagged:
Commodore, Synthesizer, c64, Netduino, Micro+Framework, Robotics, Electronics, Gadgeteer, MakerRoundup, 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, June 6, 2012 |
Tagged:
Commodore, c64, Netduino, Micro+Framework, Robotics, Gadgeteer, MakerRoundup, Maker, MCU, 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
Sunday, April 1, 2012 |
Tagged:
.NET, Commodore, c64, Netduino, Micro+Framework, Robotics, Electronics, Gadgeteer, MakerRoundup, Maker, 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, February 15, 2012 |
Tagged:
Commodore, c64, Netduino, Micro+Framework, Robotics, Electronics, Gadgeteer, 3d-Printing, MakerRoundup, Maker, MCU, Arduino |
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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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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
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 |
Tagged:
.NET, Commodore, Visual-Studio, Synthesizer, geek, c64, Robotics, Electronics, MakerRoundup, Maker, AVR, Arduino |
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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
thecont...
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I have a Fijit friend. There, I said it. I have a toy targeted
to 9 year old girls. I have a toy my kids want. I have a toy I'm
about to butcher in the name of …er … science.
There. Doesn't she look so innocent and happy? You know, I
bought this before they were a "hot toy" for Christmas 2011. If
that makes me a hipster, pass the glasses. (And no, I didn't pay
the outrageous p...
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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
Monday, November 7, 2011 |
Tagged:
Commodore, Micro+Framework, Robotics, Gadgeteer, Robotics-Studio, MakerRoundup, Maker, AVR, MCU, Arduino, PIC |
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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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I like Lego. I got my first set back around age 5 (I still have
some of those well-chewed bricks), and have built off-and-on ever
since. Of course, I've tried to get both of my kids into building
as well. Together, they inherited two giant Rubbermaid storage
totes full of Lego. I give them chunks of it from time to time.
I've also bought sets for both of them. Ben is signed up for the
L...
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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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The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Silverlight, Visual
C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows
7, Windows
Phone, Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services, Netduino and the .NET Micro
Framework and more. Sometimes I even include a little jQuery and
HTML5. If you have something interesting you've done or have ru...
Published
Monday, August 22, 2011 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, XNA, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone, WCF-RIA-Services, Micro+Framework, Robotics, Kinect |
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In addition to all the programming projects I have in my
backlog, plus things like migrating my website to a new provider
(and finishing migrating the old irritatedvowel hobby pages), I
have a number of fun maker-type projects I want to work on in the
near (and distant) future. In most cases, the projects would
require learning something very new - that's the appeal. If I can't
learn so...
Published
Thursday, August 18, 2011 |
Tagged:
Home-Renovation, Hobbies, CNC, Synthesis, Synthesizer, Gadgets, geek, Steam-Engines, Netduino, Micro+Framework, Robotics, Electronics |
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The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Silverlight, Visual
C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows
7, Windows
Phone, Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services, Netduino and the .NET Micro
Framework and more. Sometimes I even include a little jQuery and
HTML5. If you have something interesting you've done or have ru...
Published
Monday, August 1, 2011 |
Tagged:
Silverlight, Commodore, XNA, Synthesis, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone, c64, Netduino, Micro+Framework, Robotics |
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The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Silverlight, Visual
C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows
7, Windows
Phone, Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services, Netduino and the .NET Micro
Framework and more. Sometimes I even include a little jQuery and
HTML5. If you have something interesting you've done or have ru...
Published
Monday, July 25, 2011 |
Tagged:
WPF, Silverlight, XNA, Surface, Windows-Forms, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone, Netduino, Micro+Framework, Robotics |
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While at MADExpo last week, I interviewed
several members of the Menchville High School Robotics team. They
brought their awesome robot to demo, and explained how the team and
the program works.
MADExpo
2011 Menchville Robotics Team
I wish we had this when I was in high school! Of course, they'd
have had to be steam powered back then ;)
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The .NET Micro Framework is a free and open source
version of the .NET Framework, created by Microsoft, and supported
by both Microsoft and the community. The current production version is
4.1 and supports C# development. The latest beta, version 4.2, adds
support for Visual Basic as well as several Microsoft-contributed
and community-contributed features.
The .NET Micro Framework, Ap...
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The Windows Client Developer Roundup aggregates information of
interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Silverlight, Visual
C++, XNA, Expression Blend, Surface, Windows
7, Windows
Phone, Visual Studio, WCF RIA Services, Netduino and the .NET Micro
Framework and more. Sometimes I even include a little jQuery and
HTML5. If you have something interesting you've done or have ru...
Published
Monday, June 27, 2011 |
Tagged:
.NET, WPF, Silverlight, CPP, WindowsClient, WindowsClientRoundup, Windows-Phone, Netduino, Micro+Framework, Robotics, Kinect |
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I like gadgets - not normal gadgets like iPods and Zunes and
smartphones (although I have my pile there). I like things like robots and
robot arms and synthesizers and DIY synth kits and
synth
kits based on classic Commodore chips, and Netduino and FEZ
.NET Micro Framework boards and more. Well, you get the
picture.
I've always thought robotic arms were very cool to play with,
and m...
