A quick shout out to Netduino community member Valkyrie-MT for his work on CC3100.

Thank you so much for all your contributions.

You were a big inspiration behind the new Netduino 3 Wi-Fi hardware.

Chris

Hi EagleSparrow,

My device is dead trying to move to 4.3.1, i may need to reflash the bootstrap and i am having lots of problems.
Can someone post links to everything to set this up from bare metal?

Let's get you back up and running first... [Then take a look at the NETMF SocketClient and HTTP Client samples to start working with HTTP, etc.]

On reflashing: put your board in bootloader mode (by pressing the pushbutton while powering your board up via your computer's USB port). Then run NetduinoUpdate.exe (which comes with the firmware you're targeting) and reflash your board. This will automatically reflash the bootloader and firmware and erase the code deployment area simultaneously. After doing this, run MFDeploy and go to "target > configuration > network config" menu option and re-enter your board's MAC address. That should get you back to factory conditions.

Does that help get you pointed in the right direction?

Welcome to the Netduino community,

Chris

Netduino Go is still in production.

When you are building a pure-modular project, it will continue to be the best choice with 8 GoBus ports.

Once we get the eight new STM8S-based modules shipped, we will be working on firmware for the Ethernet module (bringing networking to Netduino Go) and 4-port hub module (bringing expansion to both Netduino Go and Netduino 3).

Speaking of STM8S-based modules, we'll have more news on those shortly

Chris

Hi guido,

Is there any news regarding a watchdog, and is it possibler to connect an external antenna?

There is no external antenna connector, although if there was really strong demand we could make a special version with an external antenna connector. There are some FCC/CE regulations around that so it would need to be studied further.

Watchdog is definitely something that we could add to the firmware. Are you looking for something that you could kick frequently--and have the board reboot if your code stopped kicking the watchdog? What kind of time resolution are you looking for (milliseconds? seconds? minutes?) Also--would other be interested in watchdog support?

Chris

Hi Henrik,

3 - We are still finalizing it. It will not be so cool to see but I'll make photos and send them to you with some description of the project. N2 will open an important italian church's confessional doors... A strange project 

Okay, now I _have_ to know what you're working on Photos would be awesome!

Chris

Hi beastyboy,

Will the Go sockets work with the Shieldbase ?
 
Or even better support multiple Shieldbases?

The production 4.3.2.0 firmware supports all RTM-firmware GoBus modules. It does not (yet) support the beta Shield Base module.

Some details on what we're doing: we have pulled out some of the virtual I/O code required for Shield Base, to upgrade Shield Base drivers and deliver the other new modules with the GoBus 1.5 virtual I/O profiles. We will be adding back in support for Shield Base's virtual I/O over the next 8 weeks as we complete that process.

And yes, with Netduino 3, you will be able to use up to three Shield Bases simultaneously. The main limitation there is making sure you have enough mA available to power the modules and anything plugged into them. [We will also be enabling up to two simultaneous Shield Bases on Netduino Go...and then removing that limit once Shield Base moves to SPI transport.]

Netduino Go is also getting an upgrade to 4.3.2.0 this week, as a beta, and we will add the new GoBus 1.5 profile support for Shield Base to that mainboard in parallel as we move it to 4.3.2 RTM firmware status.

Chris

Hi Anthony,
 

Will the new networking stack support multicast?

Ask and ye shall receive We have added experimental support for multicast to the new Netduino 3 Wi-Fi 4.3.2.1 firwmare.
http://forums.netdui...-v432-update-1/

We have also created a new MulticastOption class and SetSocketOption method overload in NetduinoExtensions.dll (in the new Netduino 4.3.2 SDK).

Chris

P.S. Experimental features have not received the same amount of testing as core features and are not (at least yet) officially supported. But we wanted to wire this up for you to help enable your projects; enjoy

Hi jacurry,

What about this card...only $5 on amazon?
 
http://www.amazon.co...0?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Kingston, 2GB, MicroSD...that should work!

Chris

What is happening to the Ethernet version?

 

You have PM

Chris

Hi Bytte,

In this moment we see that your products Netduino Plus 2 and Netduino 3 WIFI are a powerful hardware to develop new versions of our product and reduces costs, right now I have migrated to Netduino Plus 2 successfully with the modification of the operating system to support INTEROP, the problem that I have is that I must do the same for Netduino 3 WIFI and I have not found the firmware source on page http://www.netduino....3wifi/specs.htmin the option source code (open source),  Netduino 3 Wireless firmware v4.3.2 source option is disabled.

Cool. I'd love to see more (photos, videos, articles, etc.) about the cool stuff you're building with Netduino!

With the new boards and new firmware releases, we are posting source over on the new GitHub repo.

Here is the network stack source code for Netduino 3 Wi-Fi (Netduino.IP for CC3100).
https://github.com/n...duino.IP_CC3100

Welcome to the community!

Chris

Hi Phil,

What is the status of the Shield base via the Go bus and the Netduino 3?

Netduino 3 supports all the production-firmware GoBus modules (everything but Shield Base, which is in beta). As we bring Shield Base out of beta, we will be adding support for it to the Netduino 3 core (which core will be shared with Netduino Go mainboard as well).

Welcome to the Netduino community,

Chris

Hi neslekkim,

Got it: https://instagram.com/p/2_cUQJjOgg/
No blue box, no cable
 
Well, it probably made it easyer/cheaper to ship, and unless the cable is magic something, I have heaps of them..  

Woot: it made it!

Yeah, pretty much everyone should have a drawerful of MicroUSB cables by now: probably best not to add unnecessarily to landfills... [Plus the USB cables can add quite a bit of shipping cost to international shipments...they're about as heavy as the boards themselves.]

I found no reason to try to register for the "thank you gift" yet, since there will problably newer be an way for international customers to use that.. ?

If you can cover the cost of international shipping (perhaps cheaper USPS first class mail?), we'll do our best to get you goodies

Chris

Hi Chris,
 
Just like to know does N3, supported by VB.net or only c#?
Thanks.

.NET Micro Framework 4.3.1 (running on Netduino 3) supports both Visual Basic and C#.

Chris

Hi Robert,

+1 to UDP Multicast support! (And brilliant, on the Universal side, thanks for the info!!)

Just FYI...we added UDP multicast support (experimental) in the Netduino 3 Wi-Fi v4.3.2.1 firmware Just add the NetduinoExtensions.dll assembly to your project and you should be good to go.

Chris

Hi energywave,

It's possible to add an external EEPROM (for a dollar or so) to store data via I2C/SPI on Netduino 2s today, but no internal storage mechanism (outside of deploying data with your code).

I'll add a +1 to the "simple storage" feature request.

Chris

P.S. Glad you like the improvements on Netduino 3. There are a lot of improvements we haven't covered yet too ; more to come

P.P.S. Any photos you can share on your project with the N2s? We always love seeing the cool stuff that community members are building with Netduinos!

Hi Sukasa,
 

I'm also curious about the 'new' power subsystem and power management - what does that entail?

To sum it up: more power (mA) available to your projects, the ability to shut down unneeded subsystems intelligently and the potential for all sorts of new Netduino projects.

I'll cover this in detail in follow-up posts, including later on as we take more and more advantage of the new capabilities through firmware updates.

Chris

Definitely the SSL and AMQP.  The Wi-Fi is nice, but I prefer hardwired ethernet.  The GoBus is a plus that'll only get bigger over time, too.
 
The extra code space feels kind of meaningless, however.  Even on my N+1 I never came close to running out of room for binaries; it was always the RAM that was constricting.

Good news: you now have 64 KB more RAM too. And with Netduino.IP, even more...since it's very resourceful on memory itself

By default we actually allocate the flash as two 1MB sections (with 384KB available for code, as before). It's a special kind of flash called dual-bank flash which would, in theory, let us receive a complete firmware update (NETMF, app, etc.) over the air...and flash the second 1MB with it...and then reboot into the second half of flash. Would that be interesting to enable?

Or you know...extra storage for web page assets, etc. Although MicroSD already works great for that.

Chris

Hi Sukasa,

We have looked at making a Netduino 3 Ethernet PoE--but the added cost would put it out of the range of most makers. This is certainly something we could do for commercial customers in volume.
One good alternative I have seen for many maker applications is a PoE splitter.

What are you favorite things about Netduino 3 Wi-Fi?

Chris

P.S. A few more links:
 
Netduino 3 Wi-Fi schematic
Netduino.IP hybrid network stack for TI CC3100 (GitHub)
STMicro STM32F427VI microcontroller
TI CC3100 wireless network processor

One other note: STM32F427VI Rev 3 is a brand new microcontroller. We just received some of the very first chips off the line, for your Netduino 3 Wi-Fi boards. The hardware components on this board are really, really nice.

Hi EddieGarmon,

amazon is fast, hardware in hand...

Awesome! First impressions? Photos? Videos?

We're excited with you!

Chris

That's pretty awesome.  You kind of missed the most important thing, though - you've brought back official +12VIN support!  It's a small thing, but can be pretty important.  My existing N+2 project is stuck on an 8vdc adaptor to power the n+2 as well as a pair of +12V cooling fans, and being able to upgrade to +12vdc in future if I swap uCs is a great thing.

That new TI 12V->5V LDO is pretty nice, isn't it?

We still recommend lower voltages to keep heat down (since anything above ~7.5V is just going to get burned off by the LDO). I use 9V.

Chris

Hey Frode,

Nice! I'm on holiday in the US for the first time, and have ordered it from Amazon to the hotel. Amazon doesn't ship to Norway, so I'm in luck I'm in Florida now.

Very convenient Welcome to Florida!

Can't wait to try the new Wifi-board.

We'd love photos, first impressions, etc. when you unbox your new baby!

Chris

Hi danutm,

Is Netduino 3 Wifi supported in Visual Studio 2013 or in a previous version? I don't see a project template Visual C#/Micro Framework/Netduino 3 Wifi Application, as the R2 beta plug-in was released all the way in November 2014.

Yes, absolutely. We'll actually be shipping a new Netduino SDK next week (4.3.2) and Visual Studio 2013 will be the recommended IDE to use (until VS2015 ships and is fully supported soon).

For templates...you can use the Netduino Plus 2 application for now. The new SDK includes a simplified template scheme which I think you'll really like--and the new template is a superset of the Netduino Plus 2 template.

To configure your Wi-Fi settings, just open up MFDeploy's Network Config and set your SSID and passphrase. WPA2/PSK is automatically selected for you (and covers WPA2 as well).

Chris

Hi Joshk,
 

...will this work with SDHC cards?

The open source NETMF drivers work with standard MicroSD cards (up to 2GB).

Here's a link to the MicroSD card we use over at Amazon.com.

Chris

Repairing the Netduino SDK worked.  Weird.

Windows drivers. Love them, hate them... Love them most of the time

Chris