Maker fair Detroit 2012

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Thd fair was great. We sold too many FEZes we will need more stock for tomorrow.

My favorite was to finally meet Raj in person. A true genteel man for sure. We went by GHI and he got to see the new boards no one has seen :wink:

I also want to thank the GHI team for doing a fantastic job.

Want pictures of the fair? Ask Raj as he is the camera guy :slight_smile:

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Hey Raj! How about posting some pics of those ā€œboards no one has seenā€? Gus told us to ask so it must be OK! :wink:

Congrats to GHI & Detroit for a good show.

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It was an awesome trip. Gus is awesome on TinyCLR and and a 100 times (or more) awesome in person.

I will put up some the the photos from the Faire shorlty.

As for those boards ā€¦ no photographs yet ā€¦ I donā€™t want to spoil it for anyoneā€¦

ā€¦ Gus has been telling us that the G120 is small but all I can say is that it is really really small ā€¦ :slight_smile:

the pipeline is HOT ā€¦ stay tuned.

I donā€™t want to be shot for saying anything more :slight_smile:

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We (some of us) already saw a photo of one.

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Some photos from the Faire, had to choose those that may not need consent to post :slight_smile:

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The last image above is the FEZ monkey riding on a giant muffin !

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I recognize the poster :smiley:

. Looks like kids enjoy that DDR!

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Cupcake ridinā€™ monkey is * definitely* the nicest shot! Gotta get somebody in a FEZ monkey costume riding on various MF machinesā€¦

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Is that Josh in the last - 1 picture? Looks like heā€™s really trying to sell something. Did ā€œGadgeteerā€ ever come up in that conversation? :wink:

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Doesnā€™t look like Josh. But he sure has some support (picture #1) :wink:

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No josh never made it there. He was busy all weekend doing the thing I secretly emailed some about :wink:

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:smiley: I didnā€™t notice that. That might explain her look in picture #5 in the background :smiley:

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@ Gus, I just noticed the game in those pics. That is cool, I hope the kids enjoyed it. Did it take a lot of reworking of the code to work with the Video Out module?

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The game was probably the most popular demo we had there by far. The code was well structured and simple to understand, which made it a 1.5 line change to make it work with the Video Out module. This is all that was changed for the video side:


video_Out.SetDisplayConfiguration(Video_Out.Video_Out_InputResolution.Output_320x240_VGA);
var surface = (Bitmap)(video_Out.SimpleGraphics.GetType().GetField("_display", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance).GetValue(video_Out.SimpleGraphics));
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@ Steven - That is good to hear, thank you. Are you going to share the code for the DDR Input Provider?

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He already did :slight_smile: take the original packman code and add the couple lines he provided. If he gives you the whole project then it is not a challenge and where is the fun in that? :wink:

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Do you have a link for that DDR mat?

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The mat came with xbox DDR game but I have seen some being sold lose before
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Master-1-inch-foam-DDR-Deluxe-Dance-Pad-Mat-for-USB-PC-/310351131778?pt=Video_Games_Accessories&hash=item48425e7482#ht_5095wt_1037

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If you guys are looking fro the code to read XBOX controller, http://www.tinyclr.com/codeshare/entry/37

Interesting we write this code if I remember correctly but website shows MarkH as the owner! I remember we used USB analyzer to try to reverse engineer it. Maybe it was something else? Anyway, you have the code now!

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@ Gus - Thanks Gus, I think you might have misunderstood my question. The couple of line Steven provided are for the VideoOut module, I was referring to the code for the DDR mat.

Since I wrote the Pacman, I am not so much looking for the fun :slight_smile: I just wanted to see what the code for the DDR input looked like.