- Posted by SondreB on November 20, 2009
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My blog is about technology, robotics and the future. One very important piece in today's society is the government of democratic states around the world. They are the policy makers that dictate a lot of regulations, which has and can shift the directions and progress of technological advances. Re...
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- Posted by SondreB on October 15, 2009
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Today I want to introduce you to a wide range of extensions and additions to Visual Studio. Lots of developers are not aware of the potential of your existing .NET skills and experience and how you can utilize them across multiple devices, form factors and platforms. Learn about Game Development, Cloud Development and Robotics Development...
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- Posted by SondreB on August 9, 2009
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Part of Windows 7 is a completely new platform for Location and Sensors. This is a framework that tries to remove the old legacy of COM-ports for communication with external devices. Even a lot of today's USB devices, still rely on the COM protocol to communicate with the PC. The Location and Sensor Platform in Windows 7 improves this with a modern architecture for arbitrary hardware sensory input.
Read more to learn how you can program against sensor devices on your own...
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- Posted by SondreB on January 15, 2009
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Learn how you can make your own digital thermometer using cheap hardware and simple programming technics. Connect this to your computer at home or office and you can start logging how your temperature changes throughout a day...
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- Posted by sondreb on October 23, 2008
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In good spirit of the old and warm memories of Uncle Traveling Mack, I decided to write a post on how “Geek of the Year” packs his bag when he’s going to a conference. This time it’s the Professional Developer Conference (PDC08) in Los Angeles, USA. For once I decided to start packing a few days a...
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- Posted by sondreb on March 30, 2008
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During Easter this year I ordered myself a Sahara i440D Slate Tablet PC from TabletKiosk.com. This was one of my top 3 favorites that I was considering buying (read the Showdown of slate Tablet PCs). You can read the standard specifications on this great tablet PC on TabletKiosk's site, but my cust...
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- Posted by sondreb on February 9, 2008
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If you've read my blog before you'd know that I'm a big fan of tablet PCs and I used to own an HP TC 4200 convertible tablet PC that I loved and spent countless hours "playing" with. Always been a creative person and the tablet PC inspired my to take up my hobby and interest in drawing. J...
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- Posted by sondreb on November 3, 2006
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Microsoft has recently launched their High Definition 2.0 Mega pixel notebook web cam, the Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000, and I just happen to receive one in the mail and here is my experience. The Package There is not a whole lot of things included in the package, and you wouldn't expect much from a...
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- Posted by sondreb on October 1, 2006
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On Saturday I received my Lego Mindstorms NXT robot kit and started building with it. It's a lot of fun and my creativity is loose! Part of me getting this NXT kit is for education, and part for content on our community site, RoboticsStudio.com. My NeXT project is a four wheeled robot that will na...
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