Invisible computing: Not brand new but quite interesting to read:
“This site has the source code and documentation for Microsoft Invisible Computing. It is a research prototype for making small devices part of the seamless computing world. This site contains the source code and is available free of charge for research and educational use under the Microsoft Shared Source License.”
And even better, the code is Shared Source.
Giving a talk to the Cambridge SPA group on the 8. November about programming robots, Microsoft Robotics Studio and the CCR.
Update: Slides are available.
The latest CTP of the Robotics Studio is available for download. Finally, the part my Colleague Andreas Ulbrich is working on is integrated for testing. Using dssnewservice.exe offers a new feature but there are some changes necessary to be done in the created code also shown on Channle9.
The Microsoft Studio August 2006 CTP is now available for download. The most important change is the renaming of the WSAP protocol to DSSP. The specification of DSSP can be found here. API changes are listed at here.
Microsoft’s community development portal CodePlex and the Shared Source portal.
Finally, I can tell it, Tandy Trower and his team have announced the Microsoft Robotic Studio. Last time I have seen it in early spring, some parts of the tool have been already very impressing. Finally, I am looking forward for the final release.
Beside this the Robot magazine gives a first impression of the Robotics Studio and some first screenshots of the upcoming Simulator. Furthermore the Carnegie Mellon University starts a new program supported by the Robotics Group from Redmond. Meanwhile, there is also a Channel 9 video of almost one hour available.
Today I finished my first fischertechnik article for the Coding4Fun website. I guess it will take some days until the text is read, processed and published. I also think already about a follow up article of some more sophisticated models.
We are still working with the VRDK at Microsoft Reseach, Cambridge. During the last few months I gave several talks, introducing the VRDK to a wider range of audience. Finally, a lot of people asked me if and when we will release it. Unfortunately, it is not a product rather a research platform.
However, I checked the web and found some articles and weblog entries about the VRDK, written when it was presented to the public the first time.
Official Sites
Weblogs
Misc
