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.NETMF Toolbox

Somewhere around 2010, I discovered the Netduino project. This was an Arduino, but you could write code in .NET. Since the Arduino IDE wasn't that evolved at that time just yet, and .NET was already a professional language that I mastered, I started toying with this.

Since the support for many components weren't there at the time I started, I started writing loads of libraries for different components. Even though I haven't maintained this for a while, those libraries are still very much requested.

In 2011 they were hosted on Codeplex, a cloud mercurial versioning provider, but Codeplex has been discontinued. For that reason I recently converted the repository from mercurial to git and moved it to Bitbucket.

Below you'll find the documentation of the library. Source code can be found at https://bitbucket.org/garrcomm/.netmf-toolbox.

Current samples

7-Segment counter: Counting from 0 to 9 with a 7-segment display and 74HC595 IC
Adafruit Fridgelogger: The Fridge Logger demonstration for Netduino
Adafruit Motor Control Shield: Drives 4 DC motors and 2 servos
Adafruit GPS Logger: Logging GPS data to an SD card
Auto-Repeat Button: A great way to handle buttons
Bar Graph Breakout Kit: A sample for Sparkfun's Bar Graph Breakout Kit
Basic Speaker: An easy way to drive a PC-speaker and output monophonic sounds
BitBang Buzzer: When all PWM-pins are occupied and you want to add a buzzer, check this!
BlinkM Demo: A small demo for the BlinkM RGB LED module
DS1307 RTC Module: Preserving time when powered off
Dangershield: Have got the shield? Here's a sample code for NETMF
DFRobot Motorshield: A sample for the L298N and L293 DFRobot motorshields
EL Escudo Dos Shield: Samplecode for driving 8 EL-wires with the EL Escudo Dos Shield
H-Bridge Motor Driver: Driving two DC motors using a H-bridge DC motordriver
HD44780 LCD: A very simple and short HD44780 example
Hd44780Lcd Snake: A simple game that demonstrates custom characters on a HD44780 LCD
IntegratedSocket sample: Requesting a web page with the integrated .NETMF TCP socket
IRC Client: Connecting your device to an IRC server
Joystick Shield: A sample for the famous joystick shield
LED RingCoder Breakout: Sample for Sparkfun's LED RingCoder Breakout board
LoL Shield: A sample code for the 'Lots of Leds' shield (requires a fast MCU!)
RGB LED Strip: Some nice animations on LPD8806 and WS2801-based RGB strips
Matrix KeyPad: Using a matrix keypad
Micro Serial Servo Controller: Using the pololu serial servo controller with a .NET Microcontroller
Multiplexing GPIOs: Expanding the amount of GPIO ports by adding 74HC595 and/or 74HC165 IC's
NES Controller Adapter Sample: Using two NES controllers
NMEA GPS Device: Find out where your .NETMF has been
POP3 Client: Reading your mailbox with a networking-enabled device
Rdm630 RFID Reader: Reading RFID tags with a Rdm630 breakout board
RGB Led: Using 'HTML-like' hex-numbers to drive an RGB-led
Rotary DIP Switch: Using binary rotary DIP switches
Rotary Encoder: A plain rotary encoder
Sharp GP2Y0A02YK Proximity Sensor: A cheap sensor to measure distance, not very accurate
SMTP Client: Sending mail through your ISP's SMTP-server
SNTP Client: Synchronizing the Netduino with SNTP
Sound Module: Using the 4D Systems SOMO-14D sound module
Sparkfun Ardubot: Code sample for the Sparkfun Ardubot PCB
Terminal Server: Advanced Telnet server with file system access, etc.
Thermal Printer: Sample code for using a thermal printer
Thumb joystick: A simple piece of code for the popular Sparkfun Thumb Joystick
TMP36 Temperature sensor: A temperature sensor in celcius, fahrenheit and kelvin
Wearable Keypad: A driver for Sparkfun's Wearable Keypad
Web client: Requesting the latest headers from Cnn.com over HTTP
WiFly Socket: Creating sockets with a WiFly module
Wii Nunchuk: Using the Nintendo Wii Nunchuk as controller for your device

Credits

The library is maintained by Stefan Thoolen with a lot of thanks from:

Steven Don for his help with writing Speaker.cs and his C# expertise
Mario Vernari for his contributions and help with understanding electronics
Daniel Loughmiller for the 74HC595 bitbang code
Chris Walker for a lot of guidance and appreciating and spreading these works
Matt Isenhower and Steve Bulgin for helping with the installer
The Netduino Community for if they weren't using this, I wouldn't continue expanding this