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Re:Windows Phone 7 – Released To Manufacturing by iamelgringo on Thursday September 02, 2010 @09:20AM (#1656047)
I was at Maker's Faire in May. Microsoft was there demoing Sync ( mobile apps )for Ford automobiles.

They had a guy who had built a aiming mechanism for a t shirt cannon by using the tilt controls on the Win 7 phone. He was using the .Net api's from the phone to control the t-shirt cannon via Microsoft's Robotics studio api. I was rather impressed.

Re:Windows Phone 7 – Released To Manufacturing by ratsbane on Thursday September 02, 2010 @11:06AM (#1656353)
I saw that same demo booth at Maker Faire - except that I never saw the demo. The two or three times I stopped by that booth they were waiting for someone to bring something or out of tshirts. It was a neat-looking contraption, though, but I'm not ready to fully appreciate it until I see it shooting the shirts.