There were a number of announcements made at ESC East (and PDC) that might be of interest for both hobbyist and commercial developers. .NET Micro Framework 3.0 The .NET Micro Framework team announced availability of the .NET Micro Framework 3.0 SDK with...

Ori Amiga shows Live Mesh running on a Car PC, which was custom made for this project. Ori Amiga: Mesh Mobile - Mike

This week there are two events running at the same time, Embedded Systems Conference East here in Boston, and the PDC in LA – Most of the embedded team are at the ESC East event (obviously!), Dion, John Coyne, and Cuong Pham are down at PDC, manning the...

Yuqun Cao, a Software Development Engineer on the Windows CE JDP team has written and published an article to MSDN called “ BusEnum: Enabling Finer Control of Device Driver Loading ”. The title of the paper, while correct, doesn’t go far enough to describe...

In the last two days I’ve received a few e-mails from people asking for a copy of CEFileWiz, here’s a link to the CEFileWiz zip file on Skydrive.live.com. http://cid-37f67be71429816a.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/CEFileWiz   Let me know if you have...

Someone at work decided it would be good to try out some international foods over the next couple of weeks, this weeks treat… see below. Next week – a comparison of Baked Beans (US vs. UK) [why does US beans have a lump of pork in the can?]. - Mike

I recently blogged about one of the sessions I’m presenting at ESC East on application development, and showed the ~30 lines of managed code needed to pull an RSS feed from Frameit.live.com, parse the XML, and then pull and display images from the feed...

Just found this over on the .NET Micro Framework blog - the .NET Micro Framework and Microsoft Robotics Studio have won "Editors Choice" awards at Maker Faire Very cool! - Mike

If you are not already signed up for the 2009 Imagine Cup then you should take a look at the Embedded Development Story from this years event (see below) – Video is 22 minutes. The Embedded Development Story at the 2008 Imagine Cup Finals in Paris, France...

Couldn’t resist :O) - Mike

ESC East is just a couple of weeks out and I’m busy working on my session content, and demos – one of the demos I’m working on is a native code connected digital picture frame that consumes an RSS/XML feed from http://demofeed.frameit.com pulls down images...

I’m busy bashing out my Win32 code for the “choose an API” session at ESC East, I’m using Visual Studio 2005/Platform Builder to build/deploy/debug/test my CE 6.0 image, and have a couple of choices for application development. Write a Win32 C/C++ application...

A couple of days ago I published an article which talked about a session I’m presenting at ESC East on choosing an API for your embedded device – The plan is to show building a FrameIt enabled Picture Frame (RSS Feed with image enclosures). The application...

The .NET Micro Framework team are running a competition called the Dare to dream different challenge . Like most competitions there are a number of rounds, as follows. Round 1 – Submit your idea (October 8th – December 15th 2008) Round 2 – Create a working...

Just found this video on Engadget – Does this make you want to go to the PDC? (or come to my sessions at ESC East!) - Mike

I’m going to be presenting a couple of sessions at ESC East, Boston October 26th-30th (both of my sessions are on Tuesday, 28th October). One of the sessions covers the topic of “Which API should I use” for an embedded device, for the session I will be...