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[Westies]

Thanks Arron.

 

That's made me explore a little more and I'm going to look at getting the Netduino Plus 2 in the new year and see how I get on.  I'll still be interested in what happens with the Ehternet for the Go!

[pdii]

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[CW2]

Oh no, base64decode.org owner is back 

[Chris Walker]

BASE64 is back. What did we start?!? pdii--we took some time off of getting the Ethernet module wrapped up to get the new Netduino hardware out and the firmware updated to 4.2.2. For Netduino, we're back to working full-time on GoBus modules again this week...so we'll have more news there soon. Chris

[Humancell]

Chris,

 

Can you give us an update on this?  A coupl eof month shave passed, and I've got to make a choice on a commercial hardware product.  If Ethernet is not shipping then the Go is off the table ...

 

Thoughts?

 

 

BASE64 is back. What did we start?!? pdii--we took some time off of getting the Ethernet module wrapped up to get the new Netduino hardware out and the firmware updated to 4.2.2. For Netduino, we're back to working full-time on GoBus modules again this week...so we'll have more news there soon. Chris

[fradav]

Could I suggest to all people "eagerly" awaiting module X or Y release to carefully read chris's answer about the timeline there :http://forums.netdui...the-go/?p=47809

 

In short, original protocol design from gobus 1.0 snowballed in a much more ambitious 1.5, even 2.0, packed with a load of features. The main side-effect (and it was understanbly an inpredictable one) is that it stretched the timeline from the "the soon-to-be-released next month" to the "next-year" scale (notwithstanding the temporary focus shift to Netduino 2 boards).

 

So, there is no point in asking for ETA or lamenting delays. Let's Secret Labs handle this themselves (and who do you think is the most negatively impacted by this postponing business ?)

 

Regards,

[beastyboy]

Hi Chris,

 

Maybe it is wise to remove the "soon" message from the hardware page stating that the Go will get Ethernet soon.

This is the first place people look when buying hardware and yes that "soon" really gives a wrong impression of delivery dates.

 

I only login here a few weeks months to see the progress and maybe there should be a better time line  for all to see where and what is done.

 

Like a real Jira board or facebook timeline page showing where development heads toward.

 

Don't get me wrong I love the Netduino Go and I CAN wait much longer just liked to be more informed without having to keep scrolling thru the  forums.

 

Thanks Chris and community for the loads of work you are doing,

 

Fradav you are a new member and you really don't know how eager we are

[Chris Walker]

Hi Humancell, To confirm fradav's post... The Ethernet modules are currently waiting on a dependency GoBus 1.5 for STM32 firmware. If you're creating a commercial product now, I always recommend basing it on currently-released hardware and software. I don't want to steer you down the wrong path. Chris

[fradav]

Fradav you are a new member and you really don't know how eager we are

You're taking forum member subscription date a llittle too seriously for such a deduction. I've played with a netduino plus since two years, and I got a NGo + SB since their avalaibility. I didn't have anything to say in netduino's forums, until now. I can easily imagine how "eager" are people, as I awaited myself the completion of the platform. Recently I got three ongoing netmf based projects (interactive artistry) and I hoped to use NGo ecosystem. But I accepted that it wouldn't be ready in my timeline so I found myself buying a lot of gadgeteer stuff with GHI's cerberus mainboards (they got exactly the same cpu than NP2 and NGo). Of course, it is still a long shot from the Gobus virtualized IO and its neat features; but it is as close I could find to the Ngo ecosystem. I take comfort in the fact most of the modules I bought will be compatible with the gadgeteer-go bridge. I would gladly switch to Ngo for real if it matures enough for my future projects. Regards, -- PS : my opinion about GHI's stuff ? They're good and support is awesome. BUT, there is a but, I find that their "low priced" (cerberus and cerb-family) mainboards are a little neglected from a software quality point of view, implicitly encouraging their customers to switch to their much priced/speced options, something I do not appreciate at all.