NET Gadgeteer Research Articles

.Net Gadgeteer Application Development Using Wireless Communications

Clanek popisuje vývoj aplikaci na platformě .NET Gadgeteer spolecnosti Microsoft, ktera je soucasti technologie .NET Micro Framework. Vývoj aplikaci je představen na aplikacich využivajici siťovou ethernet komunikaci a take bezdratovou komunikaci mezi vývojovými deskami s připojenými senzorovými moduly.

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WE LIVE IN A HIGH-TECH WORLD, SURROUNDED BY NEW gadgets like smartphones and Internet TVs, along with other consumer products that were unheard of a decade or two ago. It's not surprising that we often overlook more established electronic devices. Take, for example, the humble alarm clock. Despite digital convergence, many of us still like a dedicated device that lets us know what time it is if we wake in the night and summons us to action in the morning. Sadly, alarm clocks appear to have fallen behind our other home electronics in their sophistication. So I decided to build a better one. · For this I used Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer, a platform I helped develop as part of my day job in the Sensors and Devices group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, in the United Kingdom. Our work includes the SenseCam used at the heart of Gordon Bell's MyLifeBits project [see "Total Recall," IEEE Spectrum, November 2005]. As one of the few groups at Microsoft Research that creates new hardware, we designed Gadgeteer as a rapid prototyping system for our own needs. But we saw so much interest from others that we released it to the general public as an open-source platform in 2011. Several manufacturers now supply Gadgeteer hardware that works in conjunction with free-to-download software.

Prototyping Connected Devices for the Internet of Things

Tools like Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer offer the ability to quickly prototype, test, and deploy connected devices, providing a key element that will accelerate our understanding of the challenges in realizing the Internet of Things vision. Gadgeteer is a general-purpose device development platform where the key elements includes rapid construction and reconfiguration of electronic device hardware, ease of programming and debugging, and the ability to leverage online Web services for additional storage, communication, and processing.

A New Era for Ubicomp Development

A range of platforms have become available that can help researchers and hobbyists prototype new concepts in the ubiquitous computing domain. Such platforms, including Arduino and Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer, lower the barrier to entry for building custom electronic devices and facilitate plug-and-play prototyping. They also bring sophisticated software tools and abstractions to the embedded arena, letting users quickly and easily create devices with complex behaviors. Combined with recent advances in rapid-physical-prototyping technologies, it's now possible to control the form factor of these prototypes and create devices with form and function approaching consumer expectations for electronics devices.Arduino, .NET Gadgeteer, prototyping, ubicomp devices, pervasive computing, digital camera prototype.