I do Academic and Windows Phone stuff at Microsoft Greece. Plus, I co-develop the First Words series for Windows Phone 7. Feel free to contact me on Twitter or Facebook
Today I became the lucky owner of a small missile launcher, a funny gadget that connects to you PC and lets you throw small missiles to your friends and colleagues.
This device comes with a software app that you can use to control it, but unfortunately it would not work on my Windows 7 x64 system. So, I began searching for a workaround and an “SDK”, and I found it here http://code.google.com/p/usb-missile-launcher/
I immediately downloaded it and after a small trick (compile the lib in x86, so the emulation would work) I got it to work. Suddenly, it bumped to me. Why wouldn’t I create a small Windows Phone 7 application to control the device?
So, it turned out to be pretty easy! I developed a Windows Forms application that exposes some web service operations that control the missile launcher. Then, I created a Silverlight app for Windows Phone 7 that consumes these services and … it was ready! A fun 60’ project :)
Enjoy the video, and download the source code at https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=10e568adbb498dc8#cid=10E568ADBB498DC8&id=10E568ADBB498DC8%211600
[YouTube:4bw2Yq-IZnE]
Awesome!!!
Nicly done! Are you going to make this available on the Marketplace? I have a couple of these missle launchers, and would love to be able to run them on Win7 x64 systems.
:)
Sweet!!! Any chance you can build one for the version that has the built in CAM, and stream the video to the phone?
See here for example.
www.thinkgeek.com/.../a1c2
Cheers mate!
Έπος haahaha
Hi, very nice little project :)
I did something similar a while back but just exposed the launcher as a wcf service for the rest of my office to play with :D I've got a cheap webcam mounted on mine, maybe you can figure out how to stream this to the phone?