Posted by Michel Trahan on 18 May 2011 - 12:09 PM in General Discussion

Posted by Michel Trahan on 20 May 2011 - 02:03 AM in General Discussion

Where are you come from Michel?...French Canada?

I do come from Montreal, province of Quebec, Canada, and a pure bastard (Irish, French, Indian(12th generation lol), and Iberville as a ancestor) (with this mixture bastard was the only appropriate one lol) and I'm proud to be

You should see my smile

And I do pronounce doo-ee-no exactly like dwee-no lol it's just a question of speed ?

Posted by Michel Trahan on 13 May 2011 - 08:27 PM in Netduino Plus 2 (and Netduino Plus 1)

Yes, you'll have 4KB or more of storage space to store data. It only has 10,000 rewrite cycles for flash rewrites...so you won't want to rewrite it frequently...but it'll be awesome for configuration data.

Quite ! specially for very small remote sensors using the mini ! Configuration yes, daily values ... not really since 10,000 cycles (about 27 years if one per day)

And of course, Netduino Plus has MicroSD support...so you can store data there easily too.

Was thinking of the mini or normal ones

Posted by Michel Trahan on 13 May 2011 - 02:42 PM in Netduino Plus 2 (and Netduino Plus 1)

.NET MF 4.2 (beta coming by summer) includes a new "simple storage" mechanism for storing data on-chip. We'll be embracing this in the Netduino 4.2 firmware to enable you to read/write data from your Netduino app as well.

Just to see that I understand : lets say you have a normal netduino with XBee but no SD card, you could send info to the netduino that would persist even after power recycling (like encryption key or remote ip address of neighbor sensor or ...) ? That could be interesting

Posted by Michel Trahan on 17 April 2011 - 05:26 AM in Netduino 2 (and Netduino 1)

Posted by Michel Trahan on 11 April 2011 - 10:54 PM in Project Showcase

Posted by Michel Trahan on 20 April 2011 - 04:25 AM in General Discussion

30fps is about 33ms ... do you have access to the ccd through i2c or serial ? what is the throuhgput available from the netduino compatible camera ? links please

Posted by Michel Trahan on 28 April 2011 - 01:20 PM in General Discussion

Did you remember the "ancient" PC-XT @ 4.77MHz, with 640K ram???

Hey, I bought a co-processor for one of those to make my galaxy creation simulation work in a week instead of a month

However, there are many friends that don't know how to build even a simple circuit with a 555.

I'll have to learn about those

Secondly, perhaps they are attracted by this board and would build a very simple application.

Yeap, that is me, simply learning .net in an interesting way (.net in all forms, normal, phone and MF, cool and having fun)

Thirdly, such a context is very useful because it shows clearly some lacks of a Netduino/MF board.

This is the goal of this experiment. Find out what works and what is missing, all for the ease of programming whatever we get our hands on

I'm looking at a 3D Printer right now and it is because I played with a netduino that I might have on in a few months

It is not a problem of our lack of knowledge about what to use when ... it is a question of finding out how we can adapt our tools to help even more

I Love This Community (ILTC)

Posted by Michel Trahan on 28 April 2011 - 01:32 PM in Project Showcase

Forgot to say, VERY COOL PROJECT ! A definite must have on a tutorial site Great work Stefan !

Posted by Michel Trahan on 28 April 2011 - 01:30 PM in Project Showcase

Posted by Michel Trahan on 14 April 2011 - 09:57 PM in General Discussion

Posted by Michel Trahan on 17 April 2011 - 03:25 PM in General Discussion

Posted by Michel Trahan on 17 April 2011 - 06:08 PM in General Discussion

add one on reading from a potentiometer.

Consider it done I'll contact you when there First learning dotnetnuke ...

getting started hardware guide on the wiki.

Saw it, will be feeding on it for general ideas, thanks.

It will not be a place for it all, but a place to really start on a good basis, that is my goal !

Posted by Michel Trahan on 12 May 2011 - 08:47 PM in General Discussion

Posted by Michel Trahan on 13 April 2011 - 03:23 AM in Project Showcase

Posted by Michel Trahan on 31 March 2011 - 05:36 PM in Beta Firmware and Drivers

Posted by Michel Trahan on 27 April 2011 - 09:33 PM in Beta Firmware and Drivers

Posted by Michel Trahan on 28 April 2011 - 12:52 PM in Beta Firmware and Drivers

You can also erase your Netduino using the erase pad...and then redeploy the bootloader using Atmel SAM-BA and the firmware using MFDeploy...all using USB.

Great News everyone, Terry Massey found a new way to get out of this mess. FOLLOW THIS PROCEDURE TO THE LETTER :

Prepare everything since time is of the essence.

1- Have your netduino with the mini usb connected to it but not to the computer (leave the usb connection near the ports)
2- Start MFDeploy.exe, select USB as the transport (the combobox will be empty, and that is ok)
3- Put the mouse over the "erase" button on MFDeploy.exe

Once you are ready do this :

1- Press and hold the push button on the netduino for the whole procedure (leave it pushed at all times)
2- Plug the USB to the computer
3- You should see the combobox in MFDeploy.exe contain your usb port
4- Press as fast as you can the "erase" button on MFDeploy.exe
5- You can now release the push button on the netduino

If it worked, you should get a message asking if you are sure you want to erase the software on the netduino. This will only delete de software, not the bootloader

You can now deploy some other application while waiting for you RS232 shield and try the HID again

THANKS TERRY !

Posted by Michel Trahan on 28 April 2011 - 02:10 AM in Beta Firmware and Drivers

Posted by Michel Trahan on 28 April 2011 - 03:35 PM in Netduino 2 (and Netduino 1)

But why do you thinking to a web server?

To show the results on a PC ... live !

And the timestamp would mark the begining and end of the call on the netduino to the math function (for the netduino values).

The webserver would receive a function to test and a series of values to use. For each value to test the function with, a timestamp is used to calculate the number of ticks needed to execute it (some input values might take longer to calculate the output than others). It would reply with a table of data to display on the PC side by side the PC calculated equivalent sent to the netduino to compare

We could even show the values graphically (I do need to learn how to do that too, lol)

Posted by Michel Trahan on 27 April 2011 - 11:52 AM in Netduino 2 (and Netduino 1)

I posted firmware builds of my math library to the forums. There seemed to be a huge lack of interest so I did not pursue it any further.

That was before I got a netduino It would be useful to have one ...

Posted by Michel Trahan on 28 April 2011 - 11:18 PM in Netduino 2 (and Netduino 1)

I will have to see if I can get a build cooked up for you. Which Netduino do you have?

Normal Netduino for me ! Will need the Netduino plus to test it live with the webserver app that Mario put on the forums that I need to modify for this purpose (Thanks Mario)

Posted by Michel Trahan on 28 April 2011 - 03:57 PM in Netduino 2 (and Netduino 1)

At home I have a ready-to-use basis for Netduino Plus (SD+ETH needed) and Silverlight on PC.
The SL page polls the N+ every sec asking for data. The N+ web-server answers back to the page, finally the data is both graphically and tabled.
Is that what you are looking for?

I don't have a netduino plus yet nor do I have a ethernet shield but yes, this is exactly what I'm looking for as a frame for this mathematical tutorial ! That would be a great start ! I could probably do the missing code even without ethernet connection (using debug.print lol).

YES ME WANT Please !

Put it in a new project showcase and I'll grab it from there ! Or in the wiki ? Your choice !

Boy do I love this community !

Posted by Michel Trahan on 28 April 2011 - 01:47 PM in Netduino 2 (and Netduino 1)

It got me thinking ... We should have an application that is PC based, that talks to a netduino through IP. The PC version would display the difference (3 columns, one for the selected function PC result, one for the Netduino result and one for the differences) for input many values for a selected function (have a combobox with all the available function) (2 more columns for the time it took ?) The PC application would poll the netduino for a series of results from a given function and a given series of input values, and then display them on screen. This would allow to show the valid ranges of some functions (we do that in physics) and the cost of using them (FFT you need something fast no ?). It would also allow the library coders see the results of their implementation on the spot Web server on the netduino plus, PC app that talks to the netduino server showing columns (I need to learn how to do all that lol) It would be a great application for anyone that wants to use the netduino for science ... they would know right there and then what would be the cost and errors induced by using the netduino. I vote for this as a tutorial Anyone interested ?

Posted by Michel Trahan on 28 April 2011 - 02:41 PM in Netduino 2 (and Netduino 1)