Home | Gadgeteer

Notification

Icon
Error
Hello from the UK
Options
Previous Topic Next Topic
James Carter
#1 Posted : Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:27:06 AM(UTC)
James Carter

Rank: Gadgeteer

Joined: 7/22/2011(UTC)
Posts: 21

Thanks: 1 times
Was thanked: 2 time(s) in 2 post(s)

My name is James, I'm a developer of breakout boards and other interesting components in the UK. We are on track with our new .NET Gadgeteer board (Argon R1) which should be released this summer.


Just saying hello, if anyone is involved in Gadgeteer in the UK please send me a private message!
Back to top
ransomhall
#2 Posted : Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:36:09 AM(UTC)
ransomhall

Rank: Gadgeteer

Joined: 5/21/2011(UTC)
Posts: 26

Thanks: 1 times

James - 


Welcome!  Any chance you could point us to an Argon teaser page? We would love to see what you're up to.


Eric

Make NETMF Sense
www.ransomhall.com
Back to top
James Carter
#3 Posted : Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:46:57 PM(UTC)
James Carter

Rank: Gadgeteer

Joined: 7/22/2011(UTC)
Posts: 21

Thanks: 1 times
Was thanked: 2 time(s) in 2 post(s)

Hi Ransom,


  I'm still finalising the design (moving to BGA package for SDRAM) however this is the board basically finished....


  Specs are-



  • LPC1788 Cortex-M3 Processor (120Mhz)

  • 32MB SDRAM (32bit bus)

  • 128MB NAND Flash (8bit bus)


  It has 14 sockets around the outside, aswell as an SWD or Mini-JTAG connector (this will not be populated by default, but can be added by users really easily) which will allow users to debug any native code they may write for the Micro Framework.


Regards,
James


(Love Electronics Ltd)


 
Back to top
Architect
#4 Posted : Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:58:05 PM(UTC)
Architect

Rank: Gadgeteer

Joined: 11/23/2011(UTC)
Posts: 43

Thanks: 3 times
Was thanked: 3 time(s) in 3 post(s)
That is a nice looking board!
Back to top
Gus Issa
#5 Posted : Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6:14:24 PM(UTC)
Gus Issa

Rank: Tinkerer

Joined: 1/14/2010(UTC)
Posts: 1
This is great. We look forward to seeing your new mainboard and models. Let us know if we (GHI Electronics) can help in any way.

The community needs modules too so work on those as well :)
Here are some ideas for you http://wiki.tinyclr.com/...?title=Gadgeteer_Modules
Back to top
ransomhall
#7 Posted : Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6:19:14 PM(UTC)
ransomhall

Rank: Gadgeteer

Joined: 5/21/2011(UTC)
Posts: 26

Thanks: 1 times

James -


Is this board going to be open source?


Thanks,


Eric

Make NETMF Sense
www.ransomhall.com
Back to top
James Carter
#8 Posted : Wednesday, February 15, 2012 6:34:13 PM(UTC)
James Carter

Rank: Gadgeteer

Joined: 7/22/2011(UTC)
Posts: 21

Thanks: 1 times
Was thanked: 2 time(s) in 2 post(s)

Hi Gus,


  Thanks for the offer of support! I really appreciate it, there is a huge amount of work in creating a mainboard, especially porting the .NET Microframework to a new processor, as there is not much support yet for Cortex-M3.


  You could be of great help if you could help source the Gadgeteer sockets at reasonable prices. I see you have alternative sockets on your Hydra board, its unfair for customers to pay so much for these Samtec sockets when they are a simple 10pin connector!


   I've got a few ideas for modules already (as well as the standard power, ethernet, butttons etc). You have lots of customers on your forums bursting with ideas also that I would love to collaborate on.


Eric,


   The board will be open source, released (I expect) under Creative Commons. The source for the .NET Microframework for the LPC1788 will be open source to an extent; You will definately be able to download it and compile it yourself to add any Native support you need. I do hope to license it to other manufacturers wanting to use the NXP Cortex-M3 range of products, as there is a lot of work in creating a port. It is currently compiled under GCC as I do not have a license for the more mainstream tools from ARM as of yet (perhaps when I sell a few thousand Argons!).


 


Thanks for the feedback Architect!
Back to top
Kerry H
#9 Posted : Friday, February 17, 2012 8:35:58 PM(UTC)
Kerry H

Rank: Admin

Joined: 11/22/2011(UTC)
Posts: 80

Thanks: 8 times
Was thanked: 5 time(s) in 5 post(s)

The Argon board looks awesome.  James, let us know if you're ever in the Cambridge area - the Gadgeteer researchers are based there and are always happy to talk shop.

-- K

Kerry Hammil
Microsoft Research
Back to top
James Carter
#10 Posted : Sunday, February 19, 2012 9:29:57 AM(UTC)
James Carter

Rank: Gadgeteer

Joined: 7/22/2011(UTC)
Posts: 21

Thanks: 1 times
Was thanked: 2 time(s) in 2 post(s)

Thanks Kerry - I'll be sure to contact the Cambridge guys when my board is ready for release to see if they have any input.
Back to top
Shrey
#6 Posted : Saturday, March 10, 2012 7:37:02 AM(UTC)
Rank: Tinkerer

Joined: 3/10/2012(UTC)
Posts: 1

 


Hi,

We are India based company, in the domain of hardware design and development. we have created new hardware based out on LPC1788. we are successful in porting uClinux to this hardware. also we are trying to port netmf to same hardware to benchmark uClinux with netmf

We have followed the technique to clone STM32stamp solution and modify, but failed to build. Any inputs/suggestions from you

appreciate your support
Back to top
ColinM
#11 Posted : Wednesday, March 21, 2012 12:28:37 PM(UTC)
ColinM

Rank: Gadgeteer

Joined: 3/1/2010(UTC)
Posts: 8

Was thanked: 2 time(s) in 2 post(s)
For NETMF porting questions, may I suggest you use the Support discussion on the netmf.com site.
Thanks
Back to top
David81
#12 Posted : Saturday, January 19, 2013 7:19:27 AM(UTC)
Rank: Tinkerer

Joined: 1/19/2013(UTC)
Posts: 1

Hello James,


 


My name is David and am just starting out in .net gadeteer.


My background is Computer Systems Engineering, done loads of development/R&D in the past however taken a different path and work in product marketing.


Still, I have the burning development "tinkering" inside me and recently thought of a interesting personal project needing robotics.  


So now I've stumbled across Gadgeteer it suits exactly what I need.


Looking forward to checking out your products!


Cheers,


David
Back to top
Rss Feed  Atom Feed
Users browsing this topic
Guest
Forum Jump  
You cannot post new topics in this forum.
You cannot reply to topics in this forum.
You cannot delete your posts in this forum.
You cannot edit your posts in this forum.
You cannot create polls in this forum.
You cannot vote in polls in this forum.

Powered by YAF | YAF © 2003-2011, Yet Another Forum.NET
This page was generated in 0.179 seconds.
© 2011 Microsoft Corporation