Brick Labs

This is a collection of Netduino projects and useful posts that I’ve seen on the Netduino Forums.   Projects: picoUPS — tiny uninteruptable power supply Music with a Piezo Speaker System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch class Silverlight Client and Server for Netduino Plus   Tips: InterruptPort please stop interrupting me! How to setup IP address Can´t build Blinky , [...]

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Stefan from the Netduino forums has a neat little project.  Or should I say… Project Box? He took the blue Netduino box (the one the Netduino and Netduino Plus comes in) and turns it into a project box. (He is also working on making both an overlay, so you can print off the template to [...]

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VB Support!  Now that I’ve learned a lot of C#, and with the new job, using some C#, I’m not sure I want to write VB code for the Netduino… but, it’s now available.  There are lots of bug fixes in the new firmware too.. Read more on the Netduino forums:  Breaking news: .NET MF [...]

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UPDATED on 2011-05-25 – Added notes on how to reload the bootloader, and how to ERASE your device. First off, a quick definition… “Brick’d” (or sometimes “Bricked”) means that the electronic device is now good as a doorstop…. or a brick. I’ve had this happen to routers before, and my NXT, other electronic devices too. [...]

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I did this about a week ago… and just finally got to documenting it. I bought a pack of “beginner parts” awhile back.  One of those parts, was a 7 segment LED display.  After checking around the web, and the Netduino forums, I found that the simplest way to do this (and the preferred approach) [...]

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Well, as I mentioned here, I bought the Seeedstudio  Electronic brick – Starter kit.  It includes a handy shield for working with the various components included with the Starter kit. One of the components is the 16×2 LCD display. While this is kind of handy… it was a real nuisance to get sorted out and [...]

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