Cool things to teach kids

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A colleague asked for resources recently to help prepare for a presentation to school kids about neat things they can do with technology. Replies included the gems below from Coding4Fun:

        Hardware

· DIY Dance, Dance Revolution machine

· Home Automation (X10) and .NET

· Programming LCD Display to display music

· Programming GPS Devices

· Programming USB Hardware

· Programming Web Cams

· Programming Motion Detection in Web Cams

· Programming Web Cams to send pictures to your Live Spaces Account (Photo Booth)

· Programming an IM client to do Home Automation using Skype

Web

· Programming Flickr

· Programming Google

· Programming Amazon

· Programming eBay

Games

· Windows Forms old school arcade games like Tiny Tennis , Space Blitz and Crusaders (includes videos)

· Mobile Games like Pac Man on a Smartphone

· 3D managed DirectX games like Rocket Commander (RC includes videos) and Tank Wars

· KPL Games including Pong, Asteroids, and Missile Command

· WPF Puzzle Games including Sudoku and FreeCell

AnFinally - there is a very cool demo here on youtube of the brilliant physics illustrator.