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Remember when you first got started programming, probably using Basic? (actually, my first touch into programming was in assembler on a mainframe, but that’s another story). Basic programming was simple and lightweight, probably using GWBasic (Gee Whiz
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Pavel Bánský has been working on more cool .NET Micro Framework, I just found this article over on his blog - Pavel has written an SMTP class that makes it easy to send e-mails from the .NET Micro Framework, including attachments! - very cool. - Mike
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I didn’t get to attend PDC 2008, I was in Boston at ESC East at the time the PDC event was running – Thankfully, some of the PDC sessions are posted online – here’s a few that you might find interesting (I’ve not watched all of them yet, I’m slowly working
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There were a number of announcements made at ESC East (and PDC) that might be of interest for both hobbyist and commercial developers. .NET Micro Framework 3.0 The .NET Micro Framework team announced availability of the .NET Micro Framework 3.0 SDK with
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Ori Amiga shows Live Mesh running on a Car PC, which was custom made for this project. Ori Amiga: Mesh Mobile - Mike
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Just found this over on the .NET Micro Framework blog - the .NET Micro Framework and Microsoft Robotics Studio have won "Editors Choice" awards at Maker Faire Very cool! - Mike
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The United Nations has identified some of the hardest challenges in the world today in its Millennium Goals. This year the Imagine Cup uses these ambitious challenges as a guiding light to inspire change all over the world. Learn more about the eight
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You’ve probably seen the new “I’m a PC” adverts, either on TV or the internets (what do you think of the adverts?), there’s also downloadable Life without walls (wallpapers) available from the Windows Vista Team Blog – the tagline for the wallpapers is
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Check out this low cost .NET Micro Framework board from GHI Electronics - The GHI web site also contains a video of the board being used to play a .MP3 file from a USB stick - pretty cool! The board is listed at $99, and has the following hardware and
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Zune 3.0 software is available for download today . What's new? - check out the new features list here . There are new device features, Software Features, and Social Features. Here's some of the device features: New device hardware (16GB, 120GB) Buy from
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Graças ao Windows Live tradução (Equipe de tradução de automática do Microsoft Research), a documentação de CE 6.0 agora está disponível em português! - Eis um link para o material traduzido . Thanks to Windows Live Translation (Microsoft Research Machine
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Today, Monday September 1st is Embedded day at TechEd Australia - a couple of months ago, Don Kerr, the Embedded guy in Sydney asked me to present the opening session at the Embedded day - The session is 30 minutes, followed by Q&A. It doesn't seem
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I've been in Cambridge, UK for the last few days, and spotted perhaps the best coffee cart in the world (see below). The coffee making kit is on the back of the car (click to get the large version of the image). Very cool! - Mike
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From MSDN Coding4Fun - Typically we think of robots as machines from science fiction or as industrial robots such as those that build and paint cars. In the world of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio, anything that has sensors and/or actuators can be
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Have you ever wanted to search the CE 6.0 online documentation (yes, of course you have!), the problem with typical search engines is that you get a ton of other links/information back that isn't quite so useful. Veronica, one of the CE 6.0 documentation
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