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  • Monitoring Twitter with Netduino

    Tags: twitter, netduino

    This blog post will introduce you to network communication with the Netduino. To demonstrate network connectivity I’ll have my Netduino make a request to the Twitter API to get a user’s … more

  • Netduino Emulator

    Ok lets get this over… I love this little device!!! Now lets get down to what this post is really about.  First head on over to the Netduino website and read about the capabilities of the device … more

  • Arduino at the Enterprise Developer’s Guild

    A fitting end to summer… Dan Thyler will be presenting on his internet-enabled swimming pool water cannon at the August 2010 Enterprise Developer’s Guild meeting! Having watched Dan work on this … more

  • The Basic Builduino

    Tags: General

    At the end of the month I’m presenting a 70 minute session at CodeStock titled “Getting Started with Arduino”.  The demo project I plan on using at that session is a simple … more

  • Arduino Robots – A First Attempt!

    Hey Arduinoists everywhere!  I am proud to proclaim that I am now one of you!! The Arduino hardware/software platform is awesome in so many ways and has made my job of entry level robot designer … more

  • Handling messages from an Arduino with MEF

    In this post I will demonstrate how to design a decoupled message processing application that can be easily extended for future projects. This decoupled application will use the Managed Extensibility … more

  • An Arduino RGB Color Mixer Controlled from WPF

    This example will facilitate three LED’s, each connected with same-colored wiring to PWM pins on my Arduino. The PWM pins allow for analog-like communication with any LED connected to them, … more

  • Music Made Easy with tone()

    Generating organized sound on the Arduino got a whole lot simpler with the release of revision 0018 of the software.  The PWM logic needed to control the pitch produced by a simple speaker or … more

  • Using WPF to Visualize Arduino Photoresistor Signals

    There are lots of great links about the physical aspects of connecting photoresistors to Arduino. I referenced the pre-linked Robot Overlord link to learn how to initially connect a photoresistor and … more