ISBN: 0071797963 9780071797962

Category: Technology & Engineering / Telecommunications

Page count: 256

Turn your flashes of creativity into first-rate gadgets <p><b>Covers Gadgeteer for Micro Framework 4.1 and 4.2</b></p> <p>Realize your inner innovator and rapidly build breathtaking electronic devices with Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer. By working through easy-to-follow, practical projects, you’ll discover how to design, assemble, and prototype your own gadgets—all without ever lifting a soldering iron. Learn how to choose components, write Gadgeteer applications, connect your creations to the Web, and troubleshoot. <i>Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer: Electronics Projects for Hobbyists and Inventors</i> contains complete instructions for building your projects using money-saving mainboards and modules.</p> <ul> <li>Set up the development environment and tools on your PC</li> <li>Understand Gadgeteer mainboards, modules, and sockets</li> <li>Learn how the Micro Framework and Gadgeteer libraries work</li> <li>Download and debug your applications from your PC</li> <li>Learn the principles of writing structured applications for embedded projects</li> <li>Interface with SPI, I2C, and serial-based modules</li> <li>Work with Gadgeteer interfaces for serial and storage devices, graphics, networking, and web-connected devices</li> <li>Design touch-sensitive graphic display gadgets</li> <li>Create web servers and web devices</li> </ul>