{"id":841,"date":"2009-06-02T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/I-like-it-when-people-send-me-electronics.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:54:09","slug":"i-like-it-when-people-send-me-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/i-like-it-when-people-send-me-electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"I like it when people send me electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Part of being a Microsoft Regional Director is getting early access to information and private releases to play with. They also hand out free stuff occasionally. Yesterday Kimberly and I reach received a Windows 7 Sensor development board kit (and as Kimberly doesn&#8217;t tinker with electronics, I effectively got two!) &#8211; these are the same ones that were being given out at PDC apparently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">The board looks pretty neat:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/6\/freescale.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">It has an ambient light sensor, a 3D accelerometer, and two touch-sensitive strips on. If you&#8217;re interested you can buy these\u00a0from FreeScale for $50 &#8211; see <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freescale.com\/products\/more-processors\/32-bit-mcu-and-mcp\/coldfire-plus-coldfire-mcus-mpus\/coldfire-mcus\/v1-mcu\/flexis-jm-badge-board:JMBADGE?tab=Buy_Parametric_Tab&amp;fromSearch=false\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">\u00a0(I have no affiliation with them at all). There&#8217;s a slide deck from WinHEC that <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/gavingear\/\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">Gavin Gear<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\"> presented that explains the new Sensor and Location Platform in Win7 &#8211; see <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/gavingear\/archive\/2008\/12\/15\/winhec-session-slides-for-sensor-and-location-platform-available.aspx\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: small;\">I&#8217;m looking forward to playing with mine and I&#8217;ll blog about what I do with it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">PS You can get the latest Windows API Code Pack <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.msdn.microsoft.com\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of being a Microsoft Regional Director is getting early access to information and private releases to play with. 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