Tonight’s meeting of the Tucson .NET User Group ( http://tucsondotnet.org ) marked it’s 10th anniversary. Attendance was high, and the attendees were very engaged in the presentation and discussion that followed. The meeting was held at the CoLab Workspace ( http://colab.ws/ ) in downtown Tucson.
I presented an overview and demonstration of .NET Gadgeteer - “.NET Gadgeteer Jumpstart - Programming Gadgets in C#.” The presentation included a talking room condition monitor (temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, light level, and accelerometer). We dug into the code of an incremental demo of an RFID card key door lock, including an RFID reader, character display, tunes, relay, Ethernet with WebServer, and real-time clock. Next, we examined a camera that uses WPF to implement buttons on the TE35 display to save, delete, convert to black & white, and convert to sepia. This project included a touch display, camera, SD Card, and button.
Thanks to GHI Electronics for their generous contribution of “perks” to our meeting attendees. They left very excited about Gadgeteer, NETMF, and GHI.