Will the FEZ Music Shield work with the Netduino?
@ sq77 - Are you wondering if there is an existing netduino compatible driver? Probably not on this forum. It should be pretty straightforward to port, however. Performance may be less than stellar, but that shouldn’t stop you from trying.
I probably couldn’t write a driver, because I still haven’t even gotten it to work with the Cerbuino Bee first. I found the code sample in the wiki, but that is not compatible with the Cerbuino because of pin layout and the lack of support for the SD card.
I’m a seasoned, senior, 10 year .NET Engineer, but am brand new to micro controllers.
We are talking about the FEZ music shield and not the gadgeteer music module, correct? I wouldn’t expect the shield to work with the Cerbuino without some software rework. Even though the Cerbuino has a shield form factor, it is built to be a gadgeteer mainboard. The FEZ music shield driver was built to work on something like a Domino or Panda II.
@ sq77 - The shield driver should work with Netduino
Yeah, I’m trying to use it on a shield. I figured it would be a little easier for the shields I bought to work, because the description in the store said it was good for those who can’t decide which route to go and want both shields and modules.
Maybe that’s why my Arduino shield isn’t too easy to work with either.
So I guess I need to shelve my shields and get gadgeteer modules instead?
@ Architect
That’s the driver I’ve been trying to use with the Cerbuino Bee that hasn’t worked for me yet. Still trying to work with it.
Where did you stuck?
@ sq77 - Some shields will work from a hardware point of view. It’s more a matter of coming up with a compatible driver, which in most cases you’ll have to write for the Bee. I’m assuming most, if not all, currently ported shield drivers are written for the USBizi boards.
@ Architect
The part that has me stuck is where the driver tries to connect with the SD Card when recording music.
In the sample code there is a big hard coded array of unsigned shorts, that (I assume) represents a mini song or sound of some sort. So I tried to run that but it throws an exception when trying to connect with the SD card.
So since I couldn’t access the SD Card slot to save the sample song I tried taking the hard coded ushort array and just playing it straight out to the speaker, but all I succeeded in doing was playing a brief high pitched tone.