by Ryan Lane on April 1, 2010
by Ryan Lane on March 14, 2010

Recently, I’ve been working on some Windows Multitouch applications. These apps have been built using WPF and .Net 3.5 using Microsoft’s Touch Interop Library. Since .Net 4.0 isn’t officially released yet, I haven’t been using it for any production apps, even though it would be the preferred choice for Windows Multitouch.
One of the bigger challenges with trying to design and create applications that take advantage of Windows 7’s native multitouch support is the hardware. There is currently a fairly limited choice of external displays that you can add to your setup to begin working with. All of the displays work the same in that they connect to your computer via a standard display port (VGA, DVI, HDMI, etc) and then also connect via USB to supply the touch device.
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by Ryan Lane on February 16, 2010
Working on a project that will use an RFID tag to unlock a secret admin mode of an application. More to come soon!
by Ryan Lane on February 8, 2010

I’ve been playing around with the Arduino more and more lately and really wanted to find a way to make it work with my other world of C# and WPF. The idea was to make an application that changes the screen based on how far away the user is. The only way that I could easily think about doing it was to use an Arduino as a serial device to help communicate with the sonar sensor.
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