Embedded development using .Net Micro Framework

Lately I have been trying out .Net Micro Framework development to see how easy it is, so my first attempt was to make tetris for it. About an hour later this was the result!

Next stop for me is to create more indepth OS style with a GUI and a runtime for the OPL programming language (used on the Psions) why you may ask, well its easy to encapsulate and I designed most of the runtime for OPL for the compact framework so not much needs changing.

The phsyics demo that made me go wow....

Down at the MTC (Microsoft Technology Center) the guys in white lab coats come up with some amazing technology demos, however few make me go wow as much as this one did!

Here Dave is presenting how to implement a physics engine in the Surface which can replace the default scatterview control.

DeepSearch... the destoryer of web hosts

Just a quick update on DeepSearch, there is no longer a test site for it as it crashed my web host. Guess too many people were trying out the hi-res image search feature.


...Well I did say it was a POC and had some bugs

Try out DeepSearch

A testing version of DeepSearch is now available for you to try out, though be kind... the host is terribly slow.

To test DeepSearch visit its site

People I give you ...DeepSearch

Why has no one ever done this before? Combine Deep Zoom and Live Search

...Coming soon to a StudentZine article near you

Silverlight + Live Search = The Silver Searcher

Source Code coming soon...

Silverlight Image Search Visualisation

If any of you have tried doing an Image search in either Live or Google the way it presents the results can be rather dull, just a page full of images, so I thought as I usually do... isn't there a better way to visualise this? - and Silverlight came to the rescue.

A friend of mine mentioned a plugin called CoolIris which I thought looked amazing so I decided to see if I could achieve the same type of visualisation in Silverlight.

So far its going well, as you can see above we have the same wall effect though just using a sample image; once I have the search sorted (at the moment using the Live Search SDK) and movement this will look amazing.

For those interested I will be writing about this in the next 2 StudentZine newsletter articles.