Eric,
Thank you for your input. I had completely forgotten to mention specifics of the tool chain!

What part of Alaska are you from? I live in Chugiak (a suburb of Anchorage).

-dan

Hi Dan,

I lived in Anchorage for about a year... then Wasilla for 6. My father was stationed at Elmendorf.

And yes... the tool chain is nice... free software (that works) is always good.

Hi Patrick,

I believe that the .NET MF team focused on building an XmlReader--but that XmlWriter is either (a) part of the big DPWS libraries or ( not implemented.

It would be a cool community project for sure.

In the meantime, it looks like you found a simple and good way to implement what you were looking for. Fantastic.

Chris

For some projects, that would probably work well.

For this one... I think he'd then have to convert to XML later on...

I want to put the latest Beta firmware on my nd+. However, I have one of the early September models, and one of the forum posts said to erase the original, and put the new bootloader on it. However, I can't seem to find the ERASE pad that everyone talks about. I found it easily on my original Netduino, but there is no gold ERASE pad below D0 on the nd+. Anyone have a screenshot showing where this would be?

I have a Rev A board and the pad is still by the D0 pin - although it's silver and not gold. It is the small pad to the far right just under the white box surrounding the zero.



Hope this helps,
Mark

Yes, thanks! I thought that might be it, but was a little hesitant to go throwing some voltage around willy-nilly.

Thanks again!

That's an FFC cable (flat, flexible cable). You may be able to buy an appropriate FFC connector and breakout board to make it more user-friendly...

Yeah... check around. I bought two FFC connectors to fit a DS touch screen I picked up (future Netduino project).

I havent found any! Can you help me?

I'm not real good at finding stuff like this... but...

How many pins is on that ribbon?

You might be able to find a generic one that will work... or, you can sometimes snip the ribbon very carefully, and solder your own ends to it.

NetDroidO? That's kinda cool. Be a neat form-factor for a project.

Just found this in my email...



(click the image to go to MakerShed)

Introducing the MakerShield kit - The ultimate open source prototyping shield for Arduino & Netduino micro-controllers

I might pick on up after Christmas. They take a mini-breadboard, so you can then do solderless breadboard work, right on the shield.

This recently came up in my RSS feeds... and I thought I'd pass it along here.

It's nothing to do with the Netduino directly... but it's quite handy for your electronics tools collection.

http://profmason.com/?p=1426

There is a link in the article of Prof Mason's, going to another view and explanation of the Logic Probe.

Corey... That's pretty neat. I'm going to have to load that up for the kids to play with a bit... and learn about some of the events more.

Hi Jamie,

If you put a jumper between the 3.3V pad and the ERASE pad then you have erased your Netduino's firmware completely.

When the Netduino Plus has been erased completed, its power (white), user (blue), and ethernet activity (green) LEDs will all come on and stay on--consistent with what you're seeing.

You'll need to reflash your Netduino Plus (first the bootloader using Atmel SAM-BA, possibly on a 32-bit Windows machine...and then the .NET MF firmware).

What version of Windows are you running? 32-bit or 64-bit?

Chris

If you did erase the netduino, then you'll need to use SAM-BA like Chris said.

Here is a good post to check out: http://forums.netdui...p__347#entry347

Here's what you're looking for:
http://www.sparkfun....products_id=501

They had those at the local Radio Shack last week. So likely you can find them in your rShack...

They do come in handy. I have a set of those for my multimeter too... handy there also.

Running Windows XP (SP3).. We have a student that needs to use the program.. His account is a standard User account.. The teacher has a administrator account on the machine>> It runs fine with her account but not his... My Question is what folders/rights need to be changed for the "standard" user account in XP.. Below is her email to me.. Thanks in advance
Doug

We downloaded and installed the Netduino Development requirements (http://netduino.com/downloads/) for Omar's AT project.
When you open Visual C# 2010 click on new project and select the .NET Micro Framework it should have "Netduino Application" as an option on the right. When logged into my teacher account it works but when he tries it on his account it doesn't show that option. Is there anyway to get around this?

I don't have a solution... but I do have a similar problem.

For whatever reason, when I installed the Netduino bits... they installed the templates and such to my USB drive.

So... if I have my USB drive connected, I can do the Netduino Application projects... if I don't, the Netduino stuff doesn't show up.

You might be able to find where the Netduino template installed, and either give the student rights to that, or move it so he can see it?

thanks - I doubt there was a USB drive attached when it was installed but i will check next week..Do you happen to know where most/all of the application is installed at in a default install ?? (ie program files ...)

Could also be that the Netduino installer goes into a folder that the regular user account can't see... But I don't know where..

P.S. Unless someone knows where I can nab a public beta, I'd grab it right now.

I don't know of any. I had to hunt around to get mine.

Outside of the SD card and network port... they are the same. Same pins, same .net MF, etc.

If you want to get started now.... then expand later, buy a Netduino now, and get a Plus when they are released to the public. You can take everything you've done on the Netduino, and run it on the Plus.

I soldered up two of them just this evening - took less than 15 minutes each, and only that long because I was running around doing other stuff too. If you have a soldering iron, these are a good starter project to start building your chops - if you intend on tinkering with electronics, developing good soldering skills will be pretty important...

+1 for learning the soldering skills... it's very handy.

There are "learn to solder" kits you can buy too. Inexpensive, and they teach you how to solder, de-solder, do the "thru hole" and more.

I actually picked up a few mini light kits from SparkFun to learn to solder on. Since then, I've done a handful of other projects... pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

And for fun (I do this on some of my test apps), I code for the integrated switch (SW1). If you press that... the application ends. I only do this on my test apps... but it lets me end the app on the Netduino, so it's not always running anymore.

WOOHOO! Thanks!

Personally... I wouldn't. I don't use FaceBook, rarely touch Twitter... and have never heard of "SocialEngine"... I like the forums

Listening now... thanks!

Thanks for both of you for this... I was looking for a project to use on my Netduino Plus.

I have a tiny bit of code I throw into each project I do. It just flashes the LED a couple times when the program starts. Kinda gives me a half-second "hey you" so I know the app is starting. But the flashing lid to signify activity... that would be kinda neat.

Hi, This thread here might help: http://forums.netdui...er-interfacing/ Basically, the only USB communication right now, is via the Debug.Print command from your code... so no, not really. You currently can't talk back and forth with the Netduino and USB.

I have a couple of these (bought them for like.. $10 each, brand new).



http://www.vexroboti...m/276-2153.html

I'd like to interface that with my Netduino...

Any suggestions on where to begin?

NICE CATCH! Like really, how did you get those for $10? they look awesome
Anyways have you looked at this? - http://content.vexro...ol-06272008.pdf

Also this guy that I learned Charlieplexing from... he did a video on RF links, not exactly the same but you might find some useful info...

The local Radio Shack (3 of them within driving distance) were closing... so I got all sorts of things on clearance.

You used to be able to buy the controllers via eBay for cheap too... but, I just checked and didn't see any. However, you might be able to find either a full VEX kit on eBay... or maybe buy the controllers elsewhere.

Thanks for that YT clip. I'll check it out. Maybe I can work on this after I get a few other things (aka, a job) settled.