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[Bendage]

Hi, I've been a C# developer for about 10 years. I started tinkering with the Arduino about a year ago and was impressed with all the support/examples but hated learning C since I've been spoiled with C#. Their IDE blows compared to Visual Studio. I have each Netduino board and about 60 different shield/sensors. As of a year ago I had absolutely no electronic experience, not even how to use a resistor. I'm hooked but I am stuck. The Getting Started With Netduino book, though well written, did me no good. There is a lack of intermediate support for this board. For example, I want to know how PWM pins work. What exactly are the constuctor params? What are the rules? What exactly is SetDutyCycle? I want to get into SPI. Whats the diff between the Framework SPI class and bit banging? How does it work on Netduino? I2C... everyone assumes you just know what it is and how to use it with netduino, but there are no tutorials on the above 3 topics I can find that explain the theory along with the Netduino boards. Any ideas where I can go, what I can read to learn more? I read through the APress Micro Framework book and Netduino isn't mentioned once. Where can I get a breakdown/examples of the entire SecretLabs framework like Microsoft and Java do with theirs? How about a true walkthrough of the full functionality of each board? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am $vested$ but lack direction. Thanks guys. Appreciate your feedback.

[Chris Walker]

Hi Bendage, Can you break your questions into a few topics, and we can all chat about each of them? I'm afraid that some of your questions will get lost if we all try to respond in this thread. Also--it might be worthwhile to put some of this into the Wiki so that is easily discoverable by new users. Thanks for your enthusiasm; let's see if we can help fill in the details... Chris

[Bendage]

Will do. Thanks for the reply.

[DrJaymz]

I just about finished my epic project, maybe I should read the book now eh?