.Net Gadgeteer

Today's Hardware Friday project by a friend of the blog, Marco Minerva, shows how he, and with his help, us, can build a cool home automation system with some of our favorite tools. Gadgeteer Home Automation SystemIn this post I want to describe how to create a Home Automation System that puts…

Today's Hardware Friday project is another cool project from Marco Minerva, Friend of the Blog. This project brings so many things together that it could have been called the Kitchen Sink project... Wi-Fi Gadgeteer Robot controlled by Windows Phone with image streamingI have upgraded the .NET…

Today's Hardware Friday post comes to us via MSDN Magazine and is an "internet of things" kind of project, meshing Azure with a smart thermostat (making it Smart++? A Smart Thermostat on the Service BusHere’s a bold prediction: Connected devices are going to be big business, and…

Today's Hardware Friday brings a new face to the blog, someone I've not highlighted before, but someone I believe we'll see more of in the future. Today's project is .Net Gadgeteer Powered Object Tracking RobotThis is a .Net Gadgeteer powered robot based on the rover 5 platform, and using an ir…

Today's Hardware Friday post is a .Net Gadgeteer project that given the recent weather in the States, I thought weirdly appropriate. Prototyping a connected object using the .NET Gadgeteer: the example of a steampunk meteo stationFor years I’ve had this very old voltmeter I wanted to do something…

Today's Hardware Friday post is an example of how we can make mesh our software and hardware worlds, all the while taking advantage of plug-and-play like features. Michael Dodaro, friend of the blog shows us how we take the Plug-and-play features of Mayhem and hook them up to the plug-and-play…

Quick demo of the new (NOTE: this module only works with .NET Micro Framework 4.2, and the driver is still in beta at the time of this writing) LED Matrix module for .NET Gadgeteer, manufactured by GHI Electronics. The module, which is based on the DaisyLink protocol, and contains its own…

Today's Hardware Friday project really is pretty different and while there's no real hardware and there's no source, there is something that I thought all you hardware geeks might find pretty useful. So you're a .Net Gadgeteer builder. Your project is coming together and now you want to build a…

For our Hardware Friday we're going to mix in some Bluetooth and WPF in our .Net Gadgeteer world... Controlling a Gadgeteer device using Bluetooth Module and 32feet.NET libraryIn this post, I’ll show how to send messages to a GHI Bluetooth module from a PC application using the 32feet .NET library.…

You all know my love-love relationship with mind control... well... I mean mind reading... um... (you know!) devices like the Emotive device. Well when I saw this project, one the melds a less expensive device with C# and and Fez .NET Gadgeteer device? Well I almost wet my pants (TMI?) Come on, how…