Monday, November 10, 2008 at 09:23PM Sunday, November 9, 2008 at 05:43PM Thanks to Ian, and his breadboarding skills, we now have a working prototype.
With this, we can rule the world....
Everything went very smoothly really. In fact it worked first time - which always makes me nervous. Sure enough, later on it started to behave stupidly, which we tracked to a floating output enable signal. Now I just have to get it to Barcelona without breaking it.
Although I will be bringing it into the department on Tuesday to demonstrate as well.
Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 10:30PM Today I bought a copy of Little Big Planet for the PS3. It is supposed to be wonderful. It lets you create fantastic contraptions in a virtual world. It is still in the bag, unopened.
Because I've been playing with the .NET Micro Framework. It lets you create fantastic contraptions in the real world.
Circuit design. Actually produced in a pub.
I'm making up a hardware/software system for TechEd 2008 in Barcelona next week, where I'm presenting a session called "Putting your Big Ideas onto Tiny Devices with .NET". I can't tell you what it is yet for two reasons:
Suffice it to say that the above circuit is crucial to successful completion of the project. I'm having a whale of a time bashing out the code in Visual Studio and deploying it to the target device.
Tomorrow we build the hardware...
Friday, November 7, 2008 at 07:54PM While we are talking about Version 3.0 of stuff we find that the third version of the .NET Micro Framework is also available. This one is very interesting, because it with it the mouthwatering prospect of being able to develop for the embedded platform using the Express versions of Visual Studio. It runs in Visual Studio 2008, including the free ones. This is wonderful news for hobbyists, as it means that you just need to get some hardware and you are away writing C# code for your tiny device. Go and get it (again for free) here.
And don't forget to enter the DareToDreamDifferent contest.
