Code Project – Xamarin – Building A Cross Platform App with Xamarin
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Code Project – Xamarin – Building A Cross Platform App with Xamarin

So, I made an app.  A for real, runs on things app.  More accurately, I followed a little tutorial to make an app, as part of the Xamarin Challenge over at Thurrott.com.  The app itself is a little weather app, it even includes location based weather and forecasting.  I know this isn't particularly impressive but I think it's pretty neat. Part of the point of the exercise is that it show off the cross platform ability of Xamarin as a development plaform.  The end app uses the same code and runs on Windows 10, iOS and Android.  Unfortunately, I don't…
Fixing my New 3DS …
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Fixing my New 3DS …

So, the title there says New 3DS, which is is the "New 3DS" but it's also New, in the sense that I bought it at the start of January.  It's like 3 or 4 weeks old.  Then I broke it on accident.  It's taken me years to get around to saving the money to buy one of these, not so much because I don't have the money, but because I wanted to know it was at a point in it's console life cycle that it was worth buying.  If it has been say, $50 cheaper, I'd have bought one years…
My DIY Dance Dance Revolution Hardpad
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My DIY Dance Dance Revolution Hardpad

Something like ten years or so ago, I built my own hardpad for use on Dance Dance Revolution and Stepmania.  Most of the pads that are easily bought are "soft pads".  These vary in quality, I have a couple of pads that are pretty light weight and plastic I used ages ago.  These pads tend to get damaged pretty easily, especially when wearing shoes, and slide all over the place when playing.  When i used mine in college I actually taped it to the underside of the rug in the dorm and taped out the grid of squares on the…