Coding Zen

I’ve been playing with the Microsoft Kinect and SDK at home for some time now and have yet to sit down and put together anything worth while. After watching this video on how a creative teacher is using the Kinect and a custom program to allow students to interact with graphs and charts I must admit that I am feeling a bit inspired. As we head into the winter here  [ Read More ]

Fix those broken Camera Raw thumbnails in Windows 7 64-bit

I recently began work on a RESTful web service using WCF 4. One of our requirements was to implement basic HTTP authentication (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication). This wasn’t quite as straight forward as I initially thought it might be. After some digging around I came across a wonderful extension library WcfRestContrib (https://github.com/mikeobrien/WcfRestContrib) . Proceeding after finding this library and use of their documentation I basic auth integrated quickly into the service. At this  [ Read More ]

Incase you haven’t heard Facebook is back at it. This time with their facial recognition software and of course it is by default enabled. Luckily you can now disable it. Follow these simple steps to do so. 1. Go to your privacy settings under account   2.  Click on “Customize settings”     3. Scroll down the page and find Suggest photos of me to friends and click edit settings  [ Read More ]

Haven’t had a chance to look this one over yet, so no comparison on changes available at the moment. I wanted to share that it was available with everyone first. You can get your own copy by visiting http://bit.ly/eUOTOo Related Posts:No Related Posts

Earlier this week I received an email informing me of the release of the EDSDK 2.9 library. I must say that this has been a quick release cycle for Canon and their SDK. Upon reviewing the change notes for this release there really only appears to be 2 changes. First, Canon added support for their latest EOS camera the Canon EOS 60D. Second they removed support for the antiquated Windows™  [ Read More ]

More excitement for me today as my bandpass filter for the PS3 Eye arrived today. I am using an 850 nm filter for the OEM lens from Peau Productions. In this post I will describe what was required to install the filter. Related Posts:No Related Posts

As I noted in my previous post, modification to my new Playstation 3 Eye was performed last night (I really just couldn’t wait). I am currently awaiting my 850 nm bandpass filter from Peau Productions which will hopefully be here next week, early! Well let’s get started with a brief write up on this initial mod to the PS3 Eye, removing the IR filter. Below is a picture of the  [ Read More ]

I was very pleased to find that when I came home this evening my Playstation 3 Eye had arrived! This camera will be the core of the camera vision in my multi-touch table. I am starting out with 1 camera for now but may end up adding a second if response doesn’t meet my expectations. Related Posts:Project: multi-touch table

This post is the first of what should be many to come. I have decided to put a project that I have long had on hold (2 years or so). I am going to build a multi-touch table like the Microsoft Surface for myself. I have long read on this product and dreamed to have one, but alas I just don’t have $12,000 laying around to drop on one of  [ Read More ]