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.

Pavel Bánský made this great game and demo application for the Tahoe classic (Tahoe I) development board last year.

Since then a new version of the development board from Device Solutions has come out and they switched the screen from portrait to landscape mode. They also made some changes to how you reference the buttons on the board.

So in order to make the Tetris game run on the Tahoe-II, I have made some adaptations.

Here are a few pictures of it. It runs in the Tahoe-II emulator as well.

You can download the adapted code from here: MicroTetris3.zip (41.00 kb)

All credits to Pavel for a great program.

Peter