Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer

Turn your flashes of creativity into first-rate gadgets


Covers Gadgeteer for Micro Framework 4.1 and 4.2


Realize your inner innovator and rapidly build breathtaking electronic devices with Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer. By working through easy-to-follow, practical projects, you'll discover how to design, assemble, and prototype your own gadgets-all without ever lifting a soldering iron. Learn how to choose components, write Gadgeteer applications, connect your creations to the Web, and troubleshoot. Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer: Electronics Projects for Hobbyists and Inventors contains complete instructions for building your projects using money-saving mainboards and modules.


• Set up the development environment and tools on your PC


• Understand Gadgeteer mainboards, modules, and sockets


• Learn how the Micro Framework and Gadgeteer libraries work


• Download and debug your applications from your PC


• Learn the principles of writing structured applications for embedded projects


• Interface with SPI, I2C, and serial-based modules


• Work with Gadgeteer interfaces for serial and storage devices, graphics, networking, and web-connected devices


• Design touch-sensitive graphic display gadgets


• Create web servers and web devices