Snake with an AGENT smartwatch and Lumia 920
One of the first things I tried on the AGENT was porting over the snake game I made for Netduino. Because the Netduino and AGENT both run .NET Micro Framework, pretty much all the code just worked. I...
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Make dirt-cheap electronics with the ATTiny45 + Arduino Nano
I make a lot of little gadgets using the Netduino because it is such a good prototyping tool. The SDK and dev tools (Visual Studio) are very mature and usually just work. But mainly, being able to code...
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Windows Phone controlled car with Netduino and Bluetooth
The houses in Durban, South Africa (where I live) usually have some form of gap underneath them that ranges from 30cm to big enough to crawl inside. As far as I know it is for ventilation to help with...
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Netduino and Windows Phone Bitcoin tracker on Azure
My intern and I were asked to do a talk at the Durban University of Technology to the 3rd year IT students to excite them about the possibility of using Netduinos or/and Windows Phones in their final...
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.NETMF Toolbox built for 4.3.1
If you’re not using the Netduino experimental support for VS2013, you should be. But while working on something recently I ran into a problem when trying to use the .NETMF Toolbox because it is built...
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The Internet of Things with the Azure cloud, Netduino, Windows Phone, and...
If you haven’t heard, “the cloud” is kind of a big deal right now. Microsoft Azure is Microsoft’s slice of it (with 54% of Fortune 500 companies running on Azure today), and is the reason that when...
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Microsoft’s brand new personal assistant, Cortana, is getting a lot of people excited at the moment. Even though it is in beta, I’ve found it surprisingly good, and already use it for practical reasons...
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Ice Bucket Challenge with Azure/Windows Phone/Netduino across 10,000 KM
A friend of mine, Dominic Lennon, challenged me to the “Ice Bucket Challenge”. I decided to do it in style – also, I like building things. Update: Taylor and I are in the Mercury newspaper...
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Simple network discovery to find Netduinos from Windows
With the advent of Internet-of-Things things, you’ll probably need a decent way to actually find all of the things on your network. Fun fact: If you send a UDP packet to *.255 on your network, your...
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Netduino Temperature Logger with Universal Windows app
In this previous post I described how to discover Netduinos on your network without knowing their IP’s. Building on that, this post describes how to make a Netduino log temperature data, and then how...
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