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Good news DIYers, XBee now comes in WiFi flavors. The favorite wireless module of Arduino tinkerers everywhere is growing up and adding 802.11n to its normal compliment of RF and ZigBee options. Development kits are available now starting at $149 per board, with add-on modules like embedded or wire antennas and RF connectors clocking in at $49. It might not seem like a big deal to some of you out there, but anyone who's contemplated building a Tweet-a-Watt or a Yarn Monster will appreciate being able skip adding a ZigBee adapter to their PC. Check out the PR after the break.

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It's cheaper comparing to WiFly and maybe easier to use on Netduino? IBSS (Ad-Hoc: create and join) and BSS networks are supported

Hi, I am looking for fast and cheap ways to implement some kind of controls on Netduino Plus board e.g. buttons, PS/2 mouse, etc. Finally I found this "Native Capacitive Sensors without additional Hardware" (http://arduino.cc/pl...apacitiveSensor) for Arduino. This is quite interesting and it doesn't require much to make it work and do the job. After reading more about PINs and usage. A lot of things can go wrong and you can burn the board. I am trying to figure out how to make this safe on Netduino Plus board. If I would add wire to one of the analog pins (digital should work too?), I could read the current going through this pin? If I set pin to input mode I could burn the chip on the board? So I should put pin on output and still would be able to read current on it? How does this work? Thanks for the input, david

Hi,

After seeing Netduino Mini I got very much interested into it. But it's very small chip and I need specific hardware solution. I am not good at electronics, I figured to ask here some question would the best idea.

• Are there any available shield that can be used with Netduino Mini? Maybe some links?
• I am very interested into small factor. I would need shield that could provide Ethernet port, WiFi (n standard would big plus) and would support microSD cards up to 2GB (4GB and even more would be big plus again). And also similar board that would have GSM/3G instead of WiFi. How much would it cost and how hard is to build this custom shield for Netduino Mini. Is it even possible?

I am getting my Netduino Plus, which is my first .NET MF based dev board. I am gonna to use it for testing purposes and maybe doing some presentations about .NET MF for students as MSP. I hope it does great and we consider Netduino Mini to be used in our project. I think it would give smaller form factor, lower the price and give stability. Right now problems might be performance and having custom made shield.

Thoughts?

-david

I just read about Netduino Plus on Engadget and quite impressed. You want to say that I can buy fully capable .NET Micro Framework 4.1 board with Ethernet and microSD for 60$? And I can program using .NET Micro Framework or going with C++? When it's going to be available in Switzerland (let's say www.dshop.ch)? I have been waiting several months for something like this. Amazing Also, maybe there are some cheap screens that could use with this board? Thanks, david