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[perkunas]

Don't know much about the netduino have one sitting here some place, used an arduino for some time. Anyway my questin is about multi tasking need to run multiple pumps same time. With the arduino you need a state machine, either one they offer not much good, or a comercial one way too complicated. Even looked into ocam pi it breaks the 8 bits down to 2 bits but not much suport out there and you need to learn a whole new programing enviroment.I asume I will need to build a state machine with the netduino anything easy out there.

[Chris Walker]

Hi perkunas, One of the nice features of .NET Micro Framework is that you can start up a few threads for parallel tasks--and also respond to events instead of polling sensor inputs. You could also build a traditional state machine. Up to you, lots of freedom. Chris

[hanzibal]

Yup, you can fork up threads and have them synchronized in a classical producer/consumer manner, no problems. You do this in the same way as you would in an ordinary .NET application, only with a slightly lighter set of features.

[Bainesbunch]

Yep and the one of the things missing is delegates for cross thread event handling. But since we don’t have any UI as such his is not too much of an issue. I drive almost everything from threads. One for the state control, one to poll user inputs, one to read data in the serial stream and process etc etc. You also have all the event handling too so you don’t actually need to worry about a pin state transition it is all handled for you and an event if fired on change that can be pointed to a method to process it.