@Chris, thanks for the update! As if the Netduino wasn't cool enough on its your support and replays to post and feature requests make it all that much better! Thanks Shane

Its been a bit of time and no such luck... http://forums.netdui...good-ol-arduino Maybe some day we will have the technology to do serial via USB... Like the ol Arduino did/does and well most any other device you can program via USB, I know I'm asking to put a man on the moon here but its been done.

working on some USB communication options

Sweeet! I look forward to see how it works, Thanks!
Shane

OK I have been having fun with my lil Netduino happily hacking away in VS 2010 and C# woohoo! with my Arduino off to the side like an old pair of shoes, some good shoes they where but time to move on to the new better easy way of coding; The Netduino! One nice thing was Serial.read an easy to use way of communicating from the PC to microcontroller via the already connected built right in USB port (just like the Netduino built right in and providing power)... It was easy to make apps in VB.net and C# to control the Arduino and items attached to it.. Ummm am I missing something??? is there no netduino Serial.read in C# for the Netduino that will allow it to take commands via the (already connected, providing power and code load) USB port??? I so hope I'm missing something and the post I see about HID USB, no dice working on it and you got to hook up ANOTHER connection via a USB FTDI cable to Pin X and X.... Oh pleas tell me im missing something, Perhaps like; Debug.Read or Debug.Get USB.Read? another other then yet a 2nd set of wires from the same PC and a FTDI chip/part LOL... if I need to use an FTDI to do USB to Serial guess I could allays use my Arduino to do the conversion/connection it has FTDI built in. Hoping I'm missing something, thanks. Shane

-The Short and The Long- The Short: Don’t use Aggsoft’s “Advanced USB Port Monitor” with a USB device that uses the Micro .Net framework and MFDeploy.exe… They get in fights! The Long: So it’s all working fine and dandy now. I was able to fix my Netduino via a 2nd PC. The only thing I needed to use the 2nd PC for was MFDeploy to load the Netduino firmware (NetduinoFirmware_v4.1.0.3). I was able to use the SAM-BA app to do the low level stuff on the fist PC and therefore had not thought that the 1st PC was having any true problems. So after I got the Netduino working again on the 2nd PC I thought I would or could possibly via MFDeploy ping my Netduino. Nope still hangs, this is when I started to question if the Aggsoft’s USB app could have jacked with something that only MFDeploy need to use and nothing else… OK uninstall Aggsoft’s USB app, Reboot and wooohooo success MFDeploy Ping works like a champ. So whatever the Aggsoft’s USB app did MFDeploy and VS2010 USB deployment does not like it. This all came about because I bricked/looped my Netduino loading some code from Button-Blink example and needed to reset/erase it via MFDeploy, If all goes well I can get back to hunting that bug, woohoo! A BIG thanks to the Netduino team for their wonderful show of support! Shane P.S. As for my Netduino robot taking over the world this weekend, my wife said I got yard work to do first and my robot said no he won’t help… stupid robot stupid wife, what I need is a “Cherry 2000” that runs .Net, you guys working on those yet?

Hey Chris,

Thanks for the help! It's nice to see you guys are responsive and helpful, gives me even more hope for the development and success of the product, woohoo!

OK so I think I did the adding two zeros thing right in SAM-BA.(see screen shot)


- I then disconnected and reconnected the netduino.
- Opened MFDeploy.exe
- Selected netduino under USB.
- Ping.... (No dice)
- MFDeploy seems to hang but in Task manager it dose not state "not responding" if I let it set for about 20 min it will come back that it can not ping..

Note: I m now loading all the tools on another PC, who know maybe my MFDeploy or USB drivers are jacked...

-Will report my findings-

Shane

... any ideas? im going to try this on a dif PC tonight but if no luck will send back to SparkFun or Secret Labs, not sure who... Its just odd that it seams to work to 3.3V erase/zap then using SAM-BA it takes the TinyBooterDecompressor.bin after that it then shows up as a Netduino in MFDeploy again but yet MFDeploy cant communicate with it and the LED stays on all the time.. Anywho would love to get it up and running, my robots need to take over the would this weekend so I have alot of code to do between now and then, alot! Thanks Shane

Update... 1) 3.3V to pad under Pin 0 reset the Netduino just fine - Program I had on it stooped running.. - LED stays on all the time - It no longer shows up as a Netduino when plugged into USB. 2) Upon unplug and replug it wanted to auto install drivers for the chip. - C:\Program Files\ATMEL Corporation\SAM-BA v2.10\drv - Now it shows up as ATMEL chip. 3) Load the ATMEL SAM-BA app. - enable boot from flash. - enable flash access. - Send File (TinyBooterDecompressor.bin) - NO to "Do you want to lock involved regions." 4)Unplug and replug of USB it now shows up as Netduino. Woohoo I think this is good.. - The LED still stays on. - I try to ping no luck... hangs over time, never comes back.. have to kill app. - I select ER_CONFIG and ER_FLASH.. - Deploy... Same thing, app hangs/never reports anything, I have to kill in task manager. So no luck in getting it back to 100% Any thoughts or ideas? Thanks Shane

Thanks for the link and firmware... @Chris... Ya I have been trying the MFDeploy for some time with no such luck... I did see where others have had this happen if they use the code that monkeys with the button... I'm using the example code "pushing the button" in Projects, with slight mod to it of: { buttonState = button.Read(); Debug.Print("hello World"); Thread.Sleep(250); led.Write(!buttonState); } it works to delay the LED from lighting but after loading this I can no longer load or connect to my netduino.. I'll give SAM-BA tool a shot here in a bit, it does look to be a bit complex but it will make me feel all advanced and Geekie. Thanks for the help i'l let you know how it goes. Shane

OK this is not a problem or ??? post just a fun happy thing I happened across.

I have the Motorola Android and one of the USB docking station for it, they use Micro USB...
I had to move the stinky feet on the bottom of my Netduino up a bit but not a problem and woohoo it fits nice and easy in to the docking station... cant say why I'm so happy that it dose as it has no parts attached but its nice for for now... who knows maybe i can attach a small bread board to the right...



now I need a place for my Droid...

Shane

Help.... 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied. My new Netduino bricked after loading the Button-Blink code as well so I'm going to try the Erase and Restore via the SAM-BA as the MFDeploy does not work.. But I need to get the firmware-v410-patch as listed and linked to from this form but all I get is "403 - Forbidden: Access is denied." when trying to download it... Tried it from his post: http://forums.netdui...p__347#entry347 URL its sending me to: http://forums.netdui...e-v410-patch-1/ Shane

Hello, I to am trying to make this work... 1) I do not see any com-port monitoring console window in VS2010... Am I missing something or do i need to open HyperTerm and use it? 2) The code I'm using is from the "pushing the button" example under Projects. while (true) { buttonState = button.Read(); Debug.Print("hello World"); Thread.Sleep(250); led.Write(!buttonState); } I tried HyperTerminal and set it to what I think my .Netduino USB port is on but I'm not sure of the settings.. 9600 ya? Thanks for any help on this! Shane