The WPF Design Challenge Course student team at Washtenaw Community College has won their spot at Maker Faire..  The email came through on Saturday.. You are going to Maker Faire!

Huge congratulations to:

• Kenneth Piehl
• Joanie Mynarcik
• Matt Juntunen
• Robert Dennis
• Larry Lopez

All participated in the WPF Design Challenge 1  Lifelong Learning Class at Washtenaw Community College.

If you don’t know about Maker Faire Detroit check out their site by clicking on the graphic below:

Who am I ? I am (of course)  the lucky guy who got to work with such a great group of folks..

Over at the Vangos Pterneas Digital corner Blog, Vangos has created quite a nice  and useful Kinect tutorials with WPF (Windows Presentation foundation including a full motion body tracking sample that uses his Nui.Vision library for C# and .NET 4.

 Download binaries and source code.

Prerequisites

• Kinect sensor
• Windows 7 / Vista operating system
• .NET Framework 4.0 (version 3.5 should work, too).
• OpenNI library
•  Nui.Vision library

Body Parts Supported

• Head
• Neck
• LeftShoulder
• LeftElbow
• LeftHand
• RightShoulder
• RightElbow
• RightHand
• Torso
• LeftKnee
• LeftHip
• LeftFoot
• RightKnee
• RightHip
• RightFoot

Check out his Tutorial on his NUI vision library as well. Advantages of this code: Fully OpenNI compliant, great wrapper to .NET to make doing tracking MUCH MUCH easier.

Exploring this code will be our next NUI segment at the Michigan Silverlight User Group saturday SIG meeting..