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Hi All,

The Arduino emulator YouTube Demo Here has been pretty popular in VirtualBreadboard so I figured Netduino might be interesting also.

-- EDIT

The netduino 'emulator' that integrates with VBB has been discontinued in favour of a different approach. The problem is that Microsofts emulator interface is not at all well suited for driving fast signals and resulted in a simulation that was too slow.

Some people have started with VBB based on this post which is no longer accurate so I am updating it to avoid confusion.

There is some more info on the new approach here

Hi, I am developing an emulator for the Netduino. Its all looking pretty good but there is a bit of an inconvienience in the emulator in that it doesnt pass through certain events. ie if a pin changes mode from Output to Input you cant detect it in the emulator Anyhow... to cut long story short I have a workaround but is there a way to determine if an Netduino application is running in the real hardware vs an emulator. Then I could make sure the work-around only applies to emulated code, else its a conditional compile which is not as nice. Cheers, VBB

Hi All, Often you need to use a Pin as a Tristate, ie sometimes it is an InputPin and sometimes it is an OutputPin. For example when bitbanging I2C where HIGH is a pin in input mode. How is this handled in the .NET Micro Framework. ( I dont have a board yet to try it out ) eg. OutputPort PinOut = new OutputPort(Pins.GPIO_PIN_D0, false); //Do I need to do something to reelase the PinOut, else can there be a conflict or does new InputPort() make the changes. InputPort PinIn = new InputPort(Pins.GPIO_PIN_D0, true, Port.ResistorMode.PullUp ); Then comes the question of efficiency, if the above is correct you create a new Object per tris change. This is not a good idea for high bandwidth things eg. bitbanged I2C. Is there a way to do something like PinOut.activate(); PinIn.activate(); //Releases the output driver in PinOut In Arduino for example you just use the PinMode(0,INPUT), PinMode(0,OUTPUT) etc Thanks.