May 2012
Beginner
88 pages
2h 4m
English
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Chapter 1. Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer
If you like making things, then you will love .NET Gadgeteer. You can create many interesting projects by just plugging together components and writing a few lines of programming code.
What Is .NET Gadgeteer?
The .NET Gadgeteer system is developed by Microsoft to allow people to build small electronic projects. The modules that are available all conform to the .NET Gadgeteer standard, but are created by various different manufacturers. The most important of these components is the Mainboard. This is the board that contains the processor chip that will drive all the other components that we attach to it.
One of the most popular Gadgeteer systems is the FEZ Spider (shown in Figure 1-1), which is available as part of a kit of components with everything you need to get started. The kit includes a mainboard, a camera, multicolor LEDs, a color touch screen, a joystick, and various means of connecting to other computers and the Internet.
To build the projects in this book, you will need to buy one of these kits, which are available from a number of different sources. Just type “Fez Spider Starter Kit” into your favorite search engine.
Figure 1-1. The Fez Spider Starter Kit
All the components of the Starter Kit are plugged together using short leads with connectors on each end. These are supplied as part of the kit. This means that the projects can ...
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