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Tech enthusiast, programmer, agile practitioner, Kinect, CTO @ETVox, occasional blogger
Oculus Rift, Kinect and Drone completed

Oculus Rift, Kinect and Drone completed

Posted on 25/08/201313/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
Recently I completed my experiment with the Oculus Rift and a Kinect to drive a Parrot Ar.Drone. Using Kinect I implemented both voice commands and gestures to drive the drone. With voice commands, I ... Read More
Experiments with Oculus Rift, Kinect and a drone

Experiments with Oculus Rift, Kinect and a drone

Posted on 27/07/201313/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
Recently, thanks to my friends at Digitalmind, I was able to put my hands on an Oculus rift’s developer kit and an Ar.Drone. I wanted to start by simply streaming the video feed of the parrot to... Read More
MVC paging extension with scrolling page numbers

MVC paging extension with scrolling page numbers

Posted on 07/07/201313/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
In a project I worked on recently, I got the request to page the results of a search without showing all the page numbers, but only a limited set. I had to show only 10 pages and let them scroll forwa... Read More
An update on my thoughts on the Surface Pro after two months of use

An update on my thoughts on the Surface Pro after two months of use

Posted on 20/05/201313/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
After two months of intense use of my Surface Pro, I must say that I will not turn back to my old configuration. There are some cons, obviously, but after two months, in which I forced myself to only ... Read More
My thoughts on the Surface Pro

My thoughts on the Surface Pro

Posted on 01/04/201313/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
A couple of weeks ago I’ve been in Miami and had the chance to buy a Surface Pro 128 GB. Until now, I used an eBook reader, an iPad and a notebook to get things done. In the last weeks I forced ... Read More
Overclock the Raspberry Pi with OpenElec

Overclock the Raspberry Pi with OpenElec

Posted on 20/01/201330/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
The Raspberry Pi is a nice piece of hardware, but sometimes it is a little too slower. In my case, I feel it every time I navigate with my TV remote the XBMC UI of my OpenElec installation. So a coupl... Read More
Enable the automatic update of OpenElec

Enable the automatic update of OpenElec

Posted on 20/01/201330/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
If you have created your HTPC following my previous post (here and here), you should have notice that OpenELEC will not automatically update and that the XBMC interface sometime can be really slow (es... Read More
My Cubieboard just arrived

My Cubieboard just arrived

Posted on 14/12/201202/06/2015 by Alessandro Colla
Today I finally received my Cubieboard. For the ones who want to know what is inside the “Fast shipping” package, I just took a couple of photos: As you can see, the board came with Androi... Read More
Create an Excel document with OpenXML SDK

Create an Excel document with OpenXML SDK

Posted on 02/12/201213/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
In the last post we saw how to replace the bookmark of a Word document with some values using the OpenXML SDK. This time we will do the same with an Excel file. The first thing to note is that an Exce... Read More
Replace word bookmarks at runtime with the Open XML SDK

Replace word bookmarks at runtime with the Open XML SDK

Posted on 11/11/201213/09/2015 by Alessandro Colla
Using Open XML SDK 2.0 it is possible to create from scratch Word, Excel or Power Point documents without using interops anymore. This is pretty cool, because you do not need any more to install the o... Read More
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