Species8372

Thankx for the info. *staying-tuned* Autonomous Netduino-controlled Robot-Project still suspended (Because the sensor that would help it to drive 'straight-forward' and not off-track uses some SPI with waitstates the current Netduino SPI-Implementation cant do, and my software-SPI is just too slow without native code. So instead of driving against walls i suspend this whole project until the free compiler shows up.)

You just need to compile the native code into the firmware.

So you just need the Keil compiler and invest 5000$ and there you go. Thankx!

I thought you planned to include an entry point for us to use something like fluent interop. That was almost a year ago. Still no progress.

So it seems to me that the major benefit of .NET-Micro, to have a great debugger, is useless as we cant do what microcontrollers are supposed to do - access hardware with reasonable timings and not the ranges the Pin-Classes currently allow.

Really sad, such an entry point wouldnt be that much of an effort to include in the 4.2 Release, would it?

Frustrated Netduino-Plus user (yes, i want network-code, too!),

Species8372

Hi all, sorry for being the bad guy, but i really miss * the interop entry-point or * the gcc-buildable source :'-( Species8372

Hi CW2, Species8372:

We'll be posting the source for .NET MF 4.2 RC3 firmware in the next few days. Would one of you like to test it with the latest supported version of GCC, and see how big the compiled firmware comes out?

Chris

Hi Chris,

that'd be the first thing i'd do when i get my hands on this source
Thats very good news. Although i wonder why you didnt write "and see how tiny and really small the compiled firmware comes out".

Species8372

So i will never ever get a patched firmware. Because for several thousand bucks for the compiler i'd rather go to some specialists and let them program and compile to my wishes (if i had the money). What about: * a really tiny firmware * all neccessary addons are loaded from the sd-card (even older digi-cams can do that, use a firmware on sd-card instead of the built-in one) I dont see a way for anyone in the community to implement new device drivers or extend the firmware for the netduino plus. Except the ones who have access to this magic ARM-Compiler from their workplace.