Turn your flashes of creativity into first-rate gadgets

Covers Gadgeteer for Micro Framework 4.1 and 4.2

Realize your inner innovator and rapidly build breathtaking electronic devices with Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer. By working through easy-to-follow, practical projects, you'll discover how to design, assemble, and prototype your own gadgets—all without ever lifting a soldering iron. Learn how to choose components, write Gadgeteer applications, connect your creations to the Web, and troubleshoot. Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer: Electronics Projects for Hobbyists and Inventors contains complete instructions for building your projects using money-saving mainboards and modules.

Set up the development environment and tools on your PC

Understand Gadgeteer mainboards, modules, and sockets

Learn how the Micro Framework and Gadgeteer libraries work

Download and debug your applications from your PC

Learn the principles of writing structured applications for embedded projects

Interface with SPI, I2C, and serial-based modules

Work with Gadgeteer interfaces for serial and storage devices, graphics, networking, and web-connected devices

Design touch-sensitive graphic display gadgets

Create web servers and web devices