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C9 Netduino Shield Series - Using Arduino Shield with Netduino - Part I

 
Photo courtesy of John Boxall

Introduction

When the Arduino Duemilanove microcontroller appeared in 2005, it featured a set of female pin headers exposing most of the pins of the ATmega168 for easy hacking and for connecting...

The Coding4Fun team is packing up and heading to TechEd North America and Europe this year, and we're bringing some of our toys along for the ride.  We will also be giving a session on how to build Kinect applications with some great demos at both conferences.

At TechEd North America (June 11-14),...

In this article, we give a detailed look into the external lighting system of Project Detroit, the Microsoft-West Coast Custom Mustang creation. If you're not already familiar with this project, you can find more information here.

Overview

The external lighting system for Project Detroit is run on a web...

In this article, we will give an overview of the technical side of Project Detroit, the Microsoft-West Coast Custom Mustang creation. If you're not already familiar with this project, you can find more information here. 

Key Design Decisions

It’s important to keep in mind that this car was built for...

In this article we will look at the OBD-II sub-system and instrument cluster application of the Project Detroit Mustang we built with West Coast Customs.  If you're not familiar with this project, you can find out more about it here and here.

OBD-II

OBD stands for On-Board Diagnostics.  In the...

Earlier this year at Build, we announced a partnership between the Channel 9/Coding4Fun team and Ryan Friedlinghaus, world famous and award winning automotive designer based in Corona, California and star of the Discovery Channel's Velocity network reality TV series, Inside West Coast Customs. ...

Dear friends,

As we start the new year, it's a great time to step back and review where we want to go with Coding4Fun, what kind of content we're passionate about, and most importantly, what we can do to inspire and enable everyone to get busy coding for fun themselves.

Our Team

We've expanded our team...

Last year the Coding4Fun/Channel 9 guys asked me to work on a few things for MIX10.  One of these items was a way to output a webcam stream to Windows Phone 7 for use with Clint's t-shirt cannon project you may have read about.  I figured the easiest way to accomplish this was by using a network/IP...

For Visual Studio Live 2010 in Redmond, I was asked to help plan the attendee event for the conference.  We decided to recreate the game show Jeopardy and allow 3 teams of 3 people to play: Microsoft Employees vs. Visual Studio Live Speakers vs. Visual Studio Live Attendees.  To pull this...

In this episode of the Coding4Fun Show, Brian Peek chats with Josh Blake about Natural User Interfaces and Multitouch programming with .NET.  Josh has written a multitouch PowerPoint replacement called NaturalShow, which was demonstrated during his NUI session at MIX10. Watch and learn...