October 2010 Entries
Be warned: this will be very basic. I find it amazing nonetheless. As a newbie, I went out and bought a 5V led to be used in an output port in the Netduino. This will of course not work, as the output ports of the Netduino are 3.3V. “No problem”, I thought, “I’ll just use some resistors”. The only problem is that resistors don’t work that way. You can take 5V to 3.3V by using resistors (although you could take 5V to a 3.3V led). I ended up giving the led to a friend who does very cool led projects,...
I received (by chance, mostly) a Netduino last tuesday. Netduino is an open-source hardware project based on Arduino and the .Net Micro Framework. And it’s extremely cool. I’m a C# developer and I was always interested in electronics. This is an excellent tool to start to understand that incredible world. I was about to buy an Arduino when the Netduino fell on my lap, so I was really happy about it. Netduino has various disadvantages over Arduino (for starters, it’s more expensive, not all the shields...