Monthly Archives: August 2011

Netduino: Watching the Watcher

Note: This article is an installment in a series about building a plant light controller (and beyond) on the Netduino microcontroller platform.  For previous articles in the series, click here.  It’s been a few months now since the Netduino in this … Continue reading

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BeagleBoard XM and Ubuntu 11.04 – The Big Dog Still Has a Burr in its Paw

As I wrote back in December, I switched from running Ubuntu 10.10 to Angstrom on my Beagleboard XM because I was unhappy with Ubuntu’s speed.  Some of Ubuntu’s code isn’t ready for the XM’s 1 gigahertz processor, so the processor … Continue reading

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Netduino Meets World

[Updated August 6: Added a couple of tips to the section on using minicom to configure the XBee.] [Updated August 7: Added "Windows Weirdness" section with workarounds for problems with pySerial on Windows] Note: This article is an installment in … Continue reading

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