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Learn how to quickly build cool electronic gadgets with .NET Gadgeteer. With the easy-to-follow instructions in this guide, youll tackle five fascinating projects, using Microsofts rapid prototyping Gadgeteer platform. Theres no soldering involvedyou simply plug in modules that make gadget-building quick and easy.

Ideal for beginners, this book shows you how to work with modules and other hardware in the popular Fez Spider Starter Kit, and teaches you how to program your gadgets with Visual Studio C# Express and the .NET Micro Framework 4.1 SDK. Youll soon learn a wide range of programming techniques along with the skills to design your own projects.

  • Get to know the software and hardware with a simple LED project
  • Download code from the companion site to build and test each project
  • Build a spy camera that automatically captures and saves images at regular intervals
  • Construct a simple animated game with the joystick module
  • Create a web server that sends messages you draw or write on the touchscreen module
  • Build a gadget that backs up digital images from an SD card to a USB flash drive
  • Learn about other .NET Gadgeteer modules for creating environmental sensors, an MP3 player, and a WiFi network

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Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer
Simon Monk
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Rachel Roumeliotis

Copyright 2012 Simon Monk

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Introduction

.NET Gadgeteer is a wonderful system for constructing prototypes of electronic gadgets. It is supported by a range of modules that are connected to a Mainboard with plug-in cables.

This book will lead you through the process of installing the necessary software onto your computer and then take you through a series of exciting projects that will give you the confidence and skill to start designing your own gadgets.

What You Will Need

The book restricts itself to using components from the Fez Starter Kit developed by GHI Electronics.

This particular kit is probably the most popular starter kit and is available from a range of vendors on the Internet, including GHI themselves (http://www.ghielectronics.com).

All the programs for the projects can be downloaded from the books website at http://www.gadgeteerbook.com.

How to Use this Book

You need to read to get you started, but then you can pick and choose from the remaining project chapters.

Conventions Used in This Book

The following typographical conventions are used in this book:

Italic

Indicates new terms, URLs, email addresses, filenames, and file extensions.

Constant width

Used for program listings, as well as within paragraphs to refer to program elements such as variable or function names, databases, data types, environment variables, statements, and keywords.

Constant width bold

Shows commands or other text that should be typed literally by the user.

Constant width italic

Shows text that should be replaced with user-supplied values or by values determined by context.

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Using Code Examples

This book is here to help you get your job done. In general, you may use the code in this book in your programs and documentation. You do not need to contact us for permission unless youre reproducing a significant portion of the code. For example, writing a program that uses several chunks of code from this book does not require permission. Selling or distributing a CD-ROM of examples from OReilly books does require permission. Answering a question by citing this book and quoting example code does not require permission. Incorporating a significant amount of example code from this book into your products documentation does require permission.

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Acknowledgements

I thank Linda for giving me the time, space, and support to write this book and for putting up with the various messes my projects create around the house.

Thanks to Patrick Olivier, Tom Bartindale, Thomas Smith and Jonathan Hook from Culture Lab, for their excellent feedback and help. Many thanks to the technical reviewers, Scott Gowell and William Wallace.

Finally, I would like to thank Rachel Roumeliotis, Brian Jepson and everyone an OReilly who has had a hand in producing this book.

Chapter 1. Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer

If you like making things, then you will love .NET Gadgeteer. You can create many interesting projects by just plugging together components and writing a few lines of programming code.

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