G. Andrew Duthie

Folks looking for the FEZ HAT or FEZ Cream can find them at GHI's website:

https://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/category/538

My blog, where you can find more IoT stuff as well as .NET and API development topics, is at:

http://devhammer.net/

My thanks to Seth for giving me the opportunity to share my passion for all things IoT and Gadgeteer!

For folks interested in GHI's Raspberry Pi 2 gear, you can find that at:

https://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/category/538

If you want to try out Scratch for .NET, that can be found at:

http://scratch4.net/

GHI forums are at:

https://www.ghielectronics.com/community/forum/

My blog is at:

http://devhammer.net/

Thanks again, Dave, for having me on the show!

Greg, thanks for posting about this. I just got a review unit from GHI last week, and already loving it. The ability to build a single UWP app that can run on desktop, tablet, phone, AND RPi2, and then add sensors and other hardware, is really cool.

Love being able to leverage XAML and C# pretty much everywhere now.

@actionmovies2015: Thanks very much!

Greg, thanks for featuring my video. I hope to do more like this in the future!

And thanks, Ian, for the compliment!

 Was glad to see NETMF mentioned in the discussion. I do wish, however, that Microsoft would put more energy behind NETMF in general, and .NET Gadgeteer in particular. Gadgeteer has great potential in two key areas...teaching the next generation of makers and engineers, and rapid prototyping. While components aren't terribly expensive, the modular approach has great appeal for building proof of concept devices that can demonstrate the viability o a given idea.

I get that Azure is a big piece of the IoT strategy, as it should be. But hardware matters, and though Galileo is cool, it's not the right solution for every need. NETMF and Gadgeteer were essential for me in getting my start with microcontrollers and electronics, and I'm not alone in that. Let's hear more about the future of NETMF and Gadgeteer... :D

@Gerald - FYI, I published a new post in the series that covers persistent logins with Azure Mobile Services: http://bit.ly/10U0698 and we also just finished recording the next episode of DevRadio based on that post. We walk through how to enable persistent logins using Twitter (the process is essentially the same for the other identity providers as well), and how to leverage the server-side support for making HTTP requests to retrieve additional user information, such as the Twitter screen name for the logged in user. Should be out in the next couple weeks.

@Gerald

For persistent login or single sign-on with Microsoft Accounts, I'd have a look at using Live Connect for login, as discussed here:

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/tutorials/single-sign-on-windows-8-dotnet/

For other account types, check out this post:

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/carlosfigueira/archive/2013/02/05/enabling-single-sign-on-for-windows-8-azure-mobile-apps.aspx

Hope that helps!

vkdev,

Actually, with the exception of Azure Compute, most of the services I discuss in the series are either free or charged on a monthly basis.

I do use the Azure SQL Database, which is charged monthly, for data storage. The same SQL Database, however, can be used across multiple services.

Windows Azure Mobile Services and Windows Azure Web Sites (the latter is what I use for the ASP.NET Web API version of my back-end service) are both available as free offerings in shared mode, so assuming you used the Azure SQL Database offering for the data storage, your cost would only be $10/mo.

You can find pricing details for Mobile Services and Web Sites at:

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/#data-management/
Hope that helps!

Pete,

Thanks for showing off the Meeblipiator! Nice job on the demos.

For folks who would like to see a full demo of the Meeblipiator, you can check it out here:

Meet the Meeblipiator

Includes a link to the source code, and a blog post talking about the project.

@dentaku

Thanks for the pointer on OSC. Had not heard of that, so I'll check it out.

Funny you should mention programmers not understanding MIDI, as just about anyone using a modern DAW or synthesizer may be using MIDI and not even realize it, since many newer keyboards connect via USB, but still use MIDI for communication, albeit over USB.

I was talking on Saturday with a neighbor who works for a major musical instrument retailer, and who was once a touring keyboard player, about how robust MIDI has been as a communication protocol. It's nearly 30 years old now, and still going strong.

I'm not a deep expert in MIDI, and truth be told, most of the hard MIDI work in this project is done for me by Pete's MIDI module driver, but I agree with you that touch screens can be a useful addition to enhance musical expression, and I'd like to see what I could do with a Windows Phone app and MIDI...will have to see what's possible there.

One of my other favorite musical toys, though it doesn't talk MIDI, is my Korg Kaossilator. It's primary interface is a touchpad, so it's very expressive. I used it to record a track called Devhammer's Kaos from my Music page. The entire track was played in one take on the Kaossilator.