This post illustrates how you can control Servo Motors from .NET MicroFramework using only simple output pins and C# code.

I have this idea of making a walking robot, so in order to test the basic servo control from .NET MicroFramework, I have used 2 servo motors and built a leg. Each Servo motor controls a joint in a leg .

You can start out with a look at the short video on YouTube that I made to show the leg moving.

 

This post illustrates how you can control a unipolar stepper motor from .NET MicroFramework using very simple hardware.

The motor which I have scavenged from an old 5 1/4" floppy disk drive (do you remember those?) is controlled by a dedicated Stepper Motor control class written in C#.

You can start out with a look at the short video on YouTube that I made to show the motor running:

This is the video presentation I submitted for round 2 of the Microsoft "Dare To Dream Different" competition.

The main functions of the system are:

• Guard dog barks when guests arrive at the door. Activated by movement detected by a PIR sensor.
• Doorbell playing different individual tunes, stored as MP3 files on USB memory stick. Using VMUSIC2 MP3 player module.
• Door access control with electronic door lock and door open/close sensor.
• Door access can be controlled remote by sending SMS to the system from a mobile phone. Using a GSM modem.
• Door alarms are sent as SMS to predefined mobile phone number.
• Guest can write a SMS message which is sent to a predefined mobile phone number.

Unfortunately some parts of the video is a little dark, but I hope that you can see it anyway.

As the length of the video for the competition could not be more than 10 minutes, I ran out of time to show all features in the system. Maybe I will add more video clips of this later.