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[Frankinho]

Hello,

 

May I as a complete newbie ask for your advice?:

 

Today, I've bought the book "Getting started with the Internet of Things" from O'Reilly. Now I have to order the hardware but I don't know if should go for the Netduino Plus (1) or the Plus 2 version.

 

Will the book's hints, examples and projects work with the Plus 2 board, too?

 

Thanks in advance for any helpful hints.

 

[j2inet]

While either should work fine for that book I would go with the Netduino Plus 2. In just glancing at the spec sheets a few things stand out. 

 

Netduino Plus Specs: http://www.netduino....oplus/specs.htm

Netduino Plus 2 Spects: http://netduino.com/...plus2/specs.htm

 

 

Netduino Plus:

[font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"] ?[/font] [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]Speed: 48MHz, ARM7[/font] [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]Code Storage: 64 KB[/font]
[font="Tahoma;font-size:x-small;"]without networking: 128 KB[/font] [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]RAM: 42 KB
without networking: 60 KB[/font] digital i/o features [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] all 20 digital and analog pins: GPIO [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font][font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]digital pins 0-1: UART 1 RX, TX[/font] [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] digital pins 2-3: UART 2 RX, TX [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] digital pins 5-6: PWM, PWM [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] digital pins 7-8: UART 2 RTS, CTS [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] digital pins 9-10: PWM, PWM [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] digital pins 11-13: SPI MOSI, MISO, SPCK [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] analog pins 4-5: I2C SDA, SCL

 

etduino Plus 2: 

 

[font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]?[/font] [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]Speed: 168MHz, Cortex-M4[/font] [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]Code Storage: 384 KB[/font] [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]RAM: 100+ KB[/font]

 

 

digital i/o features [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] all 22 digital and analog pins: GPIO [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]digital pins 0-1: UART 1 RX, TX[/font] [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] digital pins 2-3: UART 2 RX, TX/PWM [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] digital pins 5-6: PWM, PWM [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] digital pins 7-8: UART 3 RX, TX
(also works as UART 2 RTS, CTS) [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] digital pins 9-10: PWM, PWM [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] digital pins 11-13: PWM/MOSI, MISO, SPCK [font="Tahoma;font-size:small;"]
?[/font] digital pin SD/SC: SDA/SCL
(also works as UART 4 RX, TX)

[Chris Walker]

Hi Frankinho, The book should work well with the new boards as well. Just be sure to add the "SecretLabs.NETMF.Hardware.AnalogInput.dll" to your project and use the full namespace in your variable declarations. The same goes for "SecretLabs.NETMF.Hardware.PWM.dll". Of course you're welcome to pick up one of the first-gen units (at a bit of a discount) as well...and they'll work without the extra steps. Chris

[Frankinho]

Thanks to you both.

I've now ordered the NP2.

 

Btw, obviously the book's author has provided some updates of the sample code on his website for the book, as I've found out in the meantime: http://www.gsiot.info/download/ .

 

I'm looking forward to the delivery of "my" NP2, which I had to order via one of the European distributors mentioned on this site here.

Thanks again.