.NET Micro Framework

Today's Hardware Friday post shows off an interesting usage of an accelerometer and one that for many of use would not only proudly display our hardware building geekness, but also improve our health too! Posture Regulator using .NET Gadgeteer Accelerometer from Seeed StudioPeople who work in…

Demonstration of my latest Gadgeteer project, a simple 8-step one-octave arpeggiator using Pete Brown's MIDI Module to drive a MeeBlip micro synthesizer. Full source code is available at http://sdrv.ms/MeeBlipiatorSrc (MS-PL) Detailed blog post at:…

I dig the idea of how "teachable" .NET Gadgeteer development can be. They let the students and teachers focus on bigger picture of creation and not the minutiae (which is important, but...). So when I saw this, while there's no Solutions or direct code to download, I still thought this a…

So you have your .Net Micro Framework device. You want to give it a UI that people are used to, one with buttons, progress bars, grids, etc. You don't want to do all the basic grunt UI drawing yourself, and wish there was some kind of UI design tool available, preferably a free, though maybe GPL,…

While the thought of a cube farm filled with talking computers is the stuff of nightmares for many (well for me anyway, there's enough chatter already, and to add to it every PC verbally chatting away too? AHHHhhhh... lol), building speech capabilities into our hardware projects is something many of…

Hardware Friday's have been pretty .Net Gadgeteer focused lately, I know. Next week I'll dig through my story archive list and find something different, but being a child of the 80's I couldn't resist this project. I've always wanted my own arcade console, and while this isn't an Asteroids or Ms…

Today's Hardware Friday post shows us how we can use the .Net Micro Framework and the .Net Gadgeteer to build a simple Flipbook Maker. It shows that if "hardware" scared you in the past that the .Net Gadgeteer is the cure to that fear, that building cool things is nothing to be afraid of…

Our Hardware Friday post returns us to the PIX-6T4, The PIX-6T4 kit is out..., and a Friend of the Blog, Pete Brown. If you follow Pete, it probably won't surprise you to know he's gotten his hands on a PIX-6T4 and has shared his recent experience building the kit and writing his first…

This project shows how you can use the Netduino Plus to make a tweeting breathalyzer—a standalone breathalyzer that can post messages about the detected alcohol level to Twitter, using an inexpensive alcohol gas sensor. The Netduino is an open source electronics platform based on a 32-bit…

At Maker Faire 2010 New York, the .NET Micro Framework team and Microsoft Research (Cambridge) showed off their new device: the .NET Gadgeteer. It's like LEGO for electronics.  In this video, Colin Miller explains some of the details on the board. The board itself has a multitude of…