Tag Archives: Netduino

FEZ XBee Sensor: Hat Trick

As mentioned at the end of my Watching the Watcher article, the Netduino Plant Light project is going to take a sharp turn at this point, losing both the Netduino and the Plant Light.  I’m going to spin off some … Continue reading

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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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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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Netduino: A Little Help From Its Friends

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. If you’ve made the switch to programming with .Net Micro … Continue reading

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Netduino: Ordering Off the Menu

The source code for this article can be downloaded here: LightControllerWithMenu.zip. This is the 5th in a series of projects for the Netduino and Seeed Studio’s Grove Starter Bundle. The first four articles in the series were: Netduino Enters the … Continue reading

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Netduino: Here Comes The Night

This is the 4th in a series of projects for the Netduino and Seeed Studio’s Grove Starter Bundle. The first three articles in the series were: Netduino Enters the Grove Netduino: Time and Weather Netduino: Let There Be Light As … Continue reading

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Netduino: Let There Be Light

This is the 3rd in a series of projects for the Netduino and Seeed Studio’s Grove Starter Bundle. This installment is intended to create a plant light that automatically switches on and off at a pre-set time of the day … Continue reading

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Netduino and Analog Input: Look Ma, No Breadboard!

If you carefully compare the photos in my first and second posts about the Netduino, you may have noticed a couple of things: Before – After – There is no longer a mass of wires on the breadboard connecting the … Continue reading

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Netduino: Time and Weather

Note: The source code for the project described in this post can be downloaded here. This post is a continuation of my “Netduino Enters the Grove” article.   Building on the project in that post, I’m going to make the … Continue reading

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Netduino Enters the Grove

Note: The source code for the temperature LCD program described in this article can be downloaded here. I recently received one of Seeed Studio’s new Grove Starter Bundles. Since many others will put GROVE through its paces using an Arduino … Continue reading

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