So it seems there is some interest in SITCore powered Gadgeteer mainboards.
Now is your chance to pipe up with what capabilities you want for a new SITCore Gadgeteer board and after some general agreement I will produce some boards if at least10 punters will send me some shekels to cover costs.
So we need to nail down the following:
Board name - extremely important
Black or self powered Red
On board Ethernet or WiFi
No. of Sockets and types
Anything else
The clock is ticking and whatever gets agreed upon in 7 days will get the Altium treatment and sent to manufacture. If nobody pipes up then you get what i decide
I would say something similar to the design of the FEZ Spider, I am biased as that was my first introduction to the world of .NET Microframework but it was awesomeā¦
Should be simple enough as the SCM20260N should just drop in as a replacement for the G120 so could potentially make a Sider III with the same sockets.
The are āsupportedā electrically; and they are āsupportedā in that all the GPIO/SPI/I2C/AN/PWM APIs are there in TinyCLR, but I think that writing of module-specific device drivers now falls to the community, which has actually done a pretty good job so far.
Support via the designer is also not on the horizon (from anywhere I know of), and in fact, I wouldnāt even recommend trying to resurrect the old code. I did get a good start on a new environment, which is maybe 60% of the way to an MVP, but I changed jobs and have had zero time to dedicate to finishing it.
I would vote for a āFEZ Spider II likeā main board. It gives a lot of flexibility and covers all socket types. The development boards are good, but Gadgeteer has its place as well. I have successfully used both forms to achieve prototypes or proof of concept. Thanks.
Well, the āportable powerā kind of thing has been feedback. For sailing sports thereās a need for trackers, gps and imu. Those dinghys are small and donāt have lot of space nor any sort of electricity. They need a device that can run for a day, and at the end of the day take it off the boad for a recharge. Since it needs to be waterproof and robust, the solution best be potted. So that is where āwirelessā comes in. Just put the tracker on a charging pad for the night. The power challenge could perhaps be a reusable module for various applications like this tracker? A lipo battery, charging pcb coil receiver (seeed design?), and meanwhile providing power to the mcu and components.
To stay on topic : a gadgeteer mainboard with working wirelessly rechargable power solution.
: a gadgeteer mainboard with working wirelessly rechargable power solution.
