RE: Microsoft.NET Gadgeteer - could be fun

["Dave McLaughlin" <dave_mclaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andy,

For myself the one reason is the additional memory. My designs use LCD and
with the latest colour TFT's you need a lot of memory to store the images
for display. Of course, they could be stored on SD but then you suffer from
speed to read them back out. Tried that already.

The second reason is the size of the LCD's it supports. I want to use
7" but
all the Arduino I have seen only do up to 3.5" (or at least QVGA)

I have a need for a 7" data logger with touch and right now I was
considering using an Android based design but lack of support for native
serial ports (I have managed to get RS232 working but RS485 is a little
harder so far in driving the TX/RX state from within Android) This little
board looks ideal and as the LCD's without controllers are considerably
cheaper, this will make my overall design cheaper to build.

Dave...

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Andy Davies
Sent: 07 August 2011 03:09
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Microsoft.NET Gadgeteer - could be fun

Ok, quick question...

Why would anyone buy this over an Arduino or Netduino if you really must
have .net?

I just don't get it's appeal compared to the other options so it's a
serious
question

Cheers

Andy




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