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#1 nirav

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Posted 04 August 2010 - 07:55 PM

First of all, just wanted to say that I'm very excited that you've released the Netduino. As a veteran C# developer, I've been looking into starting some personal AVR projects. Arduino is a great platform, but I wanted to leverage my prior C# experience, instead of learning a brand new language and dev tools. Thanks again, this product looks like the perfect fit for me. Now onto my question - My first project is going to require some type of wireless access for collecting data remotely. Ethernet is out of the question due to the layout of my house. A quick google search revealed that there are quite a few Wifi Arduino shields available. The popular ones are from Asynclabs and Sparkfun. Would it be possible to use one of the Asynclabs wifi shields out of box with a .net micro framework? I have zero experience writing drivers. :( Here are two of the shields that I am interested in. Of course I'll welcome any other recommendations you might have. http://asynclabs.com...6&category_id=6 http://www.sparkfun....roducts_id=9367 thanks!

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Posted 04 August 2010 - 10:35 PM

Hi folks,

I'm also very excited about the Netduino and the .NET goodness that it brings to the AVR microcontrollers :).

Along the same lines as nirav's question - is there (or will there be) support for the XBee wireless Arduino shields?

For example:
http://www.sparkfun....roducts_id=8664

Thanks, and I can't wait until my Netduino board arrives!
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#3 Chris Walker

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Posted 05 August 2010 - 04:52 AM

On WiFi shields: these would need some sort of driver--since they're using a proprietary SPI connection to drive the network, not an integrated networking stack. Are there specific ones you've seen used that are really high quality...and we could start a project to build drivers for them? We have some ideas on how to integrate it... --- On XBee shields: there is a lot of .NET Micro Framework code out there, including some for XBee. I think the following project may have samples. Regardless, the XBee's are serial--so as long as you talk the "XBee language" (through an existing class or a new one), and as long as they accept 3V3 serial signals, you're good to go. Check out this project: http://mftoolkit.codeplex.com/ Does it have what you're looking for? Chris

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Posted 05 August 2010 - 06:15 AM

Thanks, Chris, I'll take a look at the mftoolkit. Worst case, I suppose it probably wouldn't be too difficult to port an existing Arduino XBee library (although I haven't seen the source code). Thanks!
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Posted 05 August 2010 - 06:43 AM

Worst case, I suppose it probably wouldn't be too difficult to port an existing Arduino XBee library

There is a .NET Micro Framework extension library project on the Codeplex called Grommet [^] that contains 'Asynchronus API XBee library' to communicate with XBee modules. I have not used it personally, though.

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Posted 05 August 2010 - 07:46 PM

There is a .NET Micro Framework extension library project on the Codeplex called Grommet [^] that contains 'Asynchronus API XBee library' to communicate with XBee modules. I have not used it personally, though.


Cool, thanks for the tip!
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