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Enhancing Your Home Automation Experience with Cutting-Edge Technologies

Dive into the world of home automation and advanced technologies. Explore innovative systems and tools like Windows Home Server, DIY Multitouch setups, and the latest Xbox experiences. Discover how to create a seamless digital ecosystem with in-car entertainment, smart devices, and the Ultimate Digital Photo Frame. Learn about essential hardware, software solutions, and community-driven projects aimed at transforming your home into a tech-savvy space. Join us as we discuss practical applications and exciting advancements in home automation.

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Enhancing Your Home Automation Experience with Cutting-Edge Technologies

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  1. After hours Viral, Paul, Jamie

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

  3. Blade Runner

  4. Next Xbox Experience

  5. XNA Games Studio GameComponent DrawableGameComponent • Matrix math • HLSL • Windows, Xbox 360, Zune • Click Once • Community Games Game Window Content pipeline Fixed/Variable refresh rate Update Draw

  6. Home Automation – The Vision

  7. Home Automation • Hardware • HomeEasy - B&Q • ByeByeStandby – Letsautomate.com • Software • mControl • Harmony Professional • xPL - xPLMonkey

  8. Break!

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

  10. ICE, ICE – baby! • http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Ori-Amiga-Mesh-Mobile/

  11. Featured Services in this section: Windows Live Mesh

  12. The Ultimate Digital Photo Frame

  13. How small is your PC? Pico-ITX EPIA motherboard Case 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

  14. 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

  15. Multitouch • Surface video • Windows 7 multi-touch Or parody

  16. DIY Multitouch • Build your own • Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR) • DIY: Multitouch experience in 5mins!! • NUIGroup

  17. A1-DW

  18. 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

  19. Windows Home Server

  20. Green WHS Case studies • EPIA MII 1Ghz VIA CPU, 30W • Dual core, 2Gb RAM, 1TB HDD, 90W

  21. Windows on a netbook • Windows 7 PDC build (6801) • Netbook installs • Acer Aspire One • MSI Wind • EEE PC 901

  22. 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

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