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H K
#1 Posted : Monday, March 26, 2012 9:45:19 AM(UTC)
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Hi everyone,


I'm a developer who's started dabbling in embedded electronics.  While looking for a main board/controller for the project I'm working on, it appeared that either the aduino or netduino was my only real choice.  Being a C# developer, I went with the netduino.  While looking up a reference on NETMF, I discovered this Gadgeteer concept.


I'm really intriqued by the Hydra and Spider boards.  The additional memory + touch screen capability makes it very attractive when compared to the netduino I have and I would really love to switch.  My question is:


How would I go about hooking up standard sensors to one of these boards?  For instance, the project I'm working on has several of the flat force sensors and a flow control sensor.  On the netduino/Audino it's pretty straight forward, you just connect the sensor to the appropriate pin on the board. Would I have to go through the process of creating a module to get these sensors connected, or is there some sort of add on board that I would connect them too? 


If anybody has a quick answer or a link to an article that talks about this sort of thing, I'd appreciate it.  I browsed through some of the getting started articles, and the other topics on this board, but didn't really see anything that addressed this.


Thanks,


Kevin
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James Carter
#2 Posted : Monday, March 26, 2012 10:09:36 AM(UTC)
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Hi Kevin,

If your wanting 'pin' access like you would get on a Netduino, such as accessing the ADC ports for your force sensors. You would buy an 'Extender' module as they are being called. This will expose all pins of a socket onto a 0.1" pitch board which you can plug into a breadboard.
You can then attach your sensors to this. You just need to refer to the socket pinning diagram to determine which pin to connect too.

Regards,
James
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H K
#3 Posted : Monday, March 26, 2012 10:50:14 AM(UTC)
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Hi James,


That's exactly what I need.  I will look into the extender modules.
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MikeDodaro
#4 Posted : Monday, April 16, 2012 7:42:19 PM(UTC)
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Here's an example that implements a sensor using the Gadgeteer Extender Module: http://wp.me/p1TEdE-4O
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