Irishgreen

Hello, Newbie here trying to install Mono on my Netduino. Reason being that I own a Mac. I borrowed a friend's laptop and have been following the instructions from Appendix B of "Getting started with Netduino" but unfortunately can't get past the first step of "preparing the netduino." I've unzipped the bootstrap program, but when I try to bring it up in Visual Studio on the Windows laptop per the instructions I get the error message... "One or more projects in the solution were not loaded correctly. Please see the Output Window for details" Then when I go to the output window there are two lines of output, both beginning with the path to the file I unzipped followed by these two error messages "error : Unable to read the project file 'MonoNetduinoBootloader.csproj'." and "The project could not be loaded. Could not find a part of the path.....(then it listed the file path again) Any ideas how I screwed up the first step? Thank you! Adam

Hello! Brand new to the Netduino world (as in just made the LED blink for the first time) and fascinated by this amazing little wonder! I just finished both MAKE books and wondering if I could get some advise regarding hardware purchases and/or any other ideas for a pan/tilt lighting project my daughter requested. I'm trying to see if I can figure out how to make it and quickly realizing I unknowingly promised a rather large project! The end result of this project will be an internet based iphone app to control a camera/light combo mounted on a pan/tilt system. We have to travel quite a bit for my job, and my daughter worries our pet cat is just as afraid of the dark as she is every night when we are away. Try as I might, I haven't found a way to convince her the cat is ok...and since my daughter is only 4 I'm going to try to put her mind at ease with this project I have in mind. I'd like to make the iphone app so she can check in on the cat from the road via the camera with an attached searchlight to pan around the room and find the cat. Once she finds the cat she wants to be able to turn on a colored nightlight for the cat and sing it a bedtime song over the phone. With the camera, lights, and speakers I'm guessing the pan/tilt turret will need to be fairly robust to account for carrying 5-10lbs of the various components. I know this whole project seems a little far fetched, and honestly I'm not even sure this is possible...but if all I have to lose is my time then I figure I better give it a try. Any advise would be much appreciated, thanks and have a great day! Adam