Bill E.

I haven't posted on this forum for quite a while so bear with me. Chris' book was delayed for over a week. Anyone have any insight on this? I have an Amazon.com gift cert that is just aching to be spent!! I have been (patiently) awaiting the release of the book since 2011. Teaser! Get your book published soon Chris. I am really looking forward to its release. I was hoping to be "back in the saddle" with Netduino after Chris' book - now I am going away for two weeks!! Whoo-hoo and Awwwwwww!!!!! I guesss I have to wait - some more ...... Bill

I apologize ahead of time for the long post. As a newbie to the C# world I, as a hardware weenie, try day after day to bring some semblance of personal sanity to the C# experts posts, books, examples, etc. Inevitably I give up suffering from cranial pain!! I see all the posting folks having hardware questions and issues and want to yell out "it's so simple!!" then I look at the C# examples and say to myself "what the heck are they saying??!!!" I have some Fez hardware (Panda and Domino), which I think is pretty awesome but can't really talk to it effectively, and Netduino Mini, which I think is a wonderful, fantastic piece of BS2 replacement hardware! Alas, I can't effectively talk to it either. I had to slug through the pin definitions of which GPIO pin is assigned to the actual hardware (of the Mini) and got that figured out. Miracle!!! Now I want to get to the meat of the hardware and get to timers, interrupts, external embedded devices and I keep getting C# red underlines - Ahhhhh!!! Public, Private, Static, focus, modules, scope, ... I understand that stuff from C and BASIC (sorry guys!). Now OOP is kiling me! I have book after book of Visual Studio 2010, C#, .NET, .NET Micro, etc. and they are ALL oriented towards software people. The "Beginners Guide" stuff from GHI is good but, hello!, it's for software people! There is essentially no, ZERO, guides available for the Secretlabs Netduino and Fez hardware. If it is online I have it. Giga bytes. I design embedded "periherals" in my sleep. I love PIC programming and hardware design. But this C# stuff escapes me! Help!! I have a slick Parallax Basic Stamp Super Carrier board outfitted with a Netduino Mini and a BOE Bot chassie et.al. and am able to get it roving around a room. but I need to read wheel speed, collision avoidance (from my embedded sensor design, if anyone is inerested), etc. with interrupts and timers - which prompted this post. So now I am throwing myself at the mercy of the C# gurus and screaming for help. If anyone needs hardware help, let me know!