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Windows 10 IoT Core Blockly In this blog post you’ll learn about IoT Core Blockly, a new UWP application that allows you to program a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 and a Raspberry Pi Sense Hat using a “block” editor from your browser: You create a program with interlocking blocks, which will run on the Raspberry Pi. For example, you can control the LED matrix on the Sense Hat and react to the inputs (buttons, sensors like temperature, humidity, etc.). IoT Core Blockly was inspired by these other super interesting projects: BBC micro:bit and the block editor (check out io as well) Google Blockly open source block editor Raspberry Pi Sense Hat (and the handy C# NuGet library from EmmellSoft) Microsoft Chakra JavaScript engine In this blog post, we will show you how to set up your Raspberry Pi with [ more… ]

Windows 10 Tip: Search your PC and the web with Cortana Last week, we gave you a tour around what’s new in the Windows Store with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Today, we’re going to show you how you can quickly and easily search your PC and the web all in one place. Your customizable taskbar is a great place to start any search! To search from your taskbar, simply click the Cortana* icon and type your query: For example, if you search “Xbox” you’ll see it brings up apps, apps related to Xbox, Xbox-related settings, and additional Xbox entries in the Windows Store. It also allows you to select a web search for Xbox, or search for the term “Xbox” within the folders and documents on your PC. Have a great week! *Cortana available in select markets. Source: Windows 10 [ more… ]

Forza Motorsport 6: Apex launches full version We’ve reached an important milestone in the development of Forza Motorsport 6: Apex – as of today, we’re lifting the “beta” tag and releasing Apex as a full-fledged (and still free!) product on the Windows 10 Store. We’re extremely excited to announce that today’s content update for Apex will bring wheel support to the Forza Motorsport series on Windows 10 for the first time. This is a major landmark for the Forza series on Windows 10 and has been the result of months of hard work from the Turn 10 and Windows teams. By adding wheel support to Forza Motorsport 6: Apex, we continue to work towards our goal of improving the Apex experience for players and making racing better on Windows 10. We recognize that today’s CU is just the beginning of [ more… ]

Building in 10k: Designing for Optimization and Performance Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of posts from the team that built the 10k Apart contest page, exploring the process of building for interoperability, accessibility, and progressive enhancement in less than 10kB. In the previous post in this series, I talked a lot about how the 10k Apart contest began to take shape in terms of markup. While I was busy doing that, Stephanie Stimac was tucking into the project form the design end of things. I’ll step back for a bit and let he talk about her process. Where do I begin? As I started poking through the wireframes and information architecture documents for the 10k Apart website, I realized I would have to approach this a little bit differently than other microsites I’ve designed in the [ more… ]