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Huragok
Sep 14, 2011
I'd also throw the Netduino into the OP: it's an ARM board running the .NET Micro Framework. I've found that a lot of others can make the jump from Desktop programming to micros through this nifty little board.

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Huragok
Sep 14, 2011

floatman posted:

The netduino seems really interesting with the ability to code it in C#, but while looking up on that I came across this .Net Gadgeteer thing by Microsoft. Kinda like the netduino, but with more modules and costing more cash.

Anybody have any experience with either or both of them to share?

PlaIn ol' Netduino is just like any other embedded board but there is a downside: it's garbage collected. Without a few custom libraries floating out there you may have squishy interrupts (ie not push state, jump to subroutine).

The only benefit of the gadgeteer stuff is it basically makes makes the circuits plug and play. No wiring or components needed.

That's not how Schottky intended! :argh:

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