Abiro offers development of microcontroller applications. Main focus is MCUs in the Atmel AVR and Microchip PIC series, programmed in Basic, C/C++ and/or C#. Abiro has special knowledge about the Arduino open-source electronics prototyping platform, used in e.g. the original Arduino (Wiring/C/C++) and Netduino (.NET Micro Framework, C#) boards, and related peripheral shields, and the plethora of Read more about MCU Apps[…]
Don’t forget that the MCU on Netduino and some Arduino boards are powered by 3V3, which means also the inputs and outputs are adapted to 3V3. They generally support up to 5V on digital inputs, but you will get messed up analog values if you make a mistake here, and 3V3 output might not be Read more about Arduino: Don’t forget…[…]
If you intend to buy either/or, this might be of some help. Note that there are many Arduino clones as well as other Arduino-compatible boards running .NET Micro Framework. There are also boards that are not Arduino pin-compatible, but I intentionally stay away from those (both here and in my own use), as they are Read more about Arduino vs Netduino[…]
As noted in The Internet of Things in the cloud, Pachube is a cloud-based data-logging service, that works well with network-enabled MCU-based solutions. To test it out I made a simple project that sends data to Pachube at MotionPachube – Pachube. The hardware is really simple: A motion sensor (the white dome) is connected to Read more about Netduino: Motion Sensor + Pachube[…]
I mentioned in a previous post about Netduino, that a constant risk with playing around with Netduino (and Arduino) is that it becomes a time-waster, as it’s so much fun to work with, and it’s so easy to test ideas, but it’s a great learning tool for MCU programming and new types of sensors and Read more about Arduino: MIDI Remote[…]
I’m experimenting with Netduino Plus, primarily for learning how .NET Micro Framework and C# can be used for control, sensing, telematics etc applications. The first project I sketched out is about controlling an RGB LED for color effects. That sounds rather dull right, but with a few layers of abstraction it became slightly more interesting. Read more about The power of abstraction[…]
In anything and everything… Microcontrollers or MCUs are self-contained single-chip computers containing CPU and memory for the software and data, as well as many types of peripherals. MCUs come in packages from 6 pins up to more than 100 depending on what kind of functionality is provided. Increasingly high-end MCUs get DSP functionality to accelerate math and signal processing. Read more about Microcontrollers[…]