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Viral, Paul, Jamie

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Agenda

• Playing with Live Services• Next Xbox Experience• Home automation• Mesh• Break• DIY Corner• Windows Home Server• Windows on a netbook?

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Blade Runner

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Next Xbox Experience

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GameComponent

DrawableGameComponent

XNA Games Studio

• Matrix math• HLSL• Windows, Xbox

360, Zune• Click Once• Community

Games

Content pipeline

Fixed/Variable refresh rate

Update

Draw

Game Window

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Home Automation – The Vision

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Home Automation

• Hardware– HomeEasy - B&Q– ByeByeStandby – Letsautomate.com

• Software– mControl– Harmony Professional– xPL - xPLMonkey

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Break!

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DIY Corner

• In Car Entertainment• The Ultimate Digital Photo Frame• Exploring Multitouch – cheaply!• On the frontier of service robotics

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ICE, ICE – baby!

• http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Ori-Amiga-Mesh-Mobile/

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Featured Services in this section:

Windows Live Mesh

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The Ultimate Digital Photo Frame

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How small is your PC?

Pico-ITX EPIA motherboardCase Measurements: 96.15 x 46.60 x 175mm (3.79 x 1.83 x 6.89in); Volume: 0.78 litres.

See more at: http://mini-itx.com

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Windows for free?

• Free evaluation licenses– Windows CE– Windows XP Embedded

• Enables hobbyist to build custom images for specific devices

• USB 2.0 enables boot from USB stick• OS Images expire between 90 and 180 days

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Multitouch

• Surface video• Windows 7 multi-touch

Or parody

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DIY Multitouch

• Build your own– Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR)

• DIY: Multitouch experience in 5mins!!– NUIGroup

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A1-DW

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MRDS

• Free for non-commercial use• Visual Programming Language• Physics based Visual Simulation• Get it from: Microsoft.com/Robotics• Awesome fun with RoboChamps.Com• Demo: Live with Create and Xbox Controller

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Windows Home Server

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Green WHS Case studies

• EPIA MII 1Ghz VIA CPU, 30W• Dual core, 2Gb RAM, 1TB HDD, 90W

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Windows on a netbook

• Windows 7 PDC build (6801)• Netbook installs– Acer Aspire One– MSI Wind– EEE PC 901

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Resources

• Blogs– Paul’s - Wotudo.net– Viral’s – www.Haveyouseenmystapler.net– Jamie’s – www.JamieEBurgess.com

• User groups– XNA-UK.net– TheDigitalLifeStyle.com– NUIGroup.net