Since I do both open (gnu, c, arm, android) and closed (VB, C#, pc)..I would say you get what you pay for with open. You have to spend alot of time getting the open stuff to work and you must be diligent in its use or you get burned. For ease of use and quick development, give me VB/C# any day. I can crank out VB faster than anyone. Pick your religion and pray to your source god. I am agnostic. Whatever pays the bills.
@HarfordHackerspace , not talking about hardware here. the Tools are free but not opensource AND NOT FREE like in GNU GPL. Those are just crippled licenced by microsoft and doin addicting newb programmers to their developement crap. YOU BETTER NEVER USE MICROSOFT TOOLS if you want to stay independend.
@axel1973w I guess there aren't any FREE OPEN SOURCE spell checkers. We're not married to the Netduino, nor is our vision so narrow that we would immediately exclude a development platform based on the fact that it isn't GNU GPL. We also use Arduino/Atmel, PIC, PSoC (not open source, gasp!), etc... If you think we only use Netduino, wake up.
@axel1973w Ummm, Netduino is open source, and so is the C# compiler. If you are so afraid of Microsoft (which is ridiculous), use Monodevelop to program for it. MonoDevelop is an open source C# programming environment. C# is NOT a closed-source language, proof by Mono. Nor is its compiler closed source. Visual Studio IS closed source, purely because it is professional software, and isn't required to be in an Open-Source environment. C#, however, ISN'T closed-source
@axel1973w You better change your mindset if you want to find an employer in this field that isn't Canonical or the FSF. Go tell someone in industry you're going to use QT for a nonportable windows application. After all, who seriously uses linux?
@axel1973w What you're saying is way more close-minded than using closed-source tools. Wake up bro, Linux is updated because IBM, Dell and other companies pay developers to make fixes/new features. There's no project that runs without money, even UNIX-based kernels. And now don't only focus on open-source, GPL etc., just focus on what you need. So what do you REALLY need ? An open-source IDE/compiler, or one of the best IDE, with excellent debug tools and a great support ?
@axel1973w You can use the free and open source Mono compiler as an alternative to the free (but not open source) Visual Studio Express...on a Linux box if you'd like. Full details on the Mono forum in the Netduino community forums. Visual Studio Express is really nice, but there are supported open source alternatives if you're interested.
Is it possible to find the source code and the (even if easy) circuit schematics for this project? itn't important if the code and/or schematics are not a perfect example of programming, I'd like to start with netduino at least by looking some already working examples.
Why not put the RGB LED on the PWM outputs and feed each channel the 8 bit values from the color meter? then you'd have exact (almost) color reproduction instead of nearest of 3 colors.
@hnnnnnghhh We thought about that but for the sake of simplicity and lack of time we decided to just leave it as is for now. I'm sure we'll come out with a version 2.0 of this project soon. We used what we had available at the Hackerspace and our RGB LED was cheap and not diffused. So you could see individual colors instead of the colors being mixed into one new color.
Since I do both open (gnu, c, arm, android) and closed (VB, C#, pc)..I would say you get what you pay for with open. You have to spend alot of time getting the open stuff to work and you must be diligent in its use or you get burned. For ease of use and quick development, give me VB/C# any day. I can crank out VB faster than anyone. Pick your religion and pray to your source god. I am agnostic. Whatever pays the bills.
abales5003 3 weeks ago 2
GET RID of those closed source non free microsoft programming crap! Use FREE AND OPEN Tool only.
axel1973w 1 year ago
@axel1973w Uh, the Netduino is open source. The tools are free. Do your homework before commenting. :-)
HarfordHackerspace 1 year ago 4
@HarfordHackerspace , not talking about hardware here. the Tools are free but not opensource AND NOT FREE like in GNU GPL. Those are just crippled licenced by microsoft and doin addicting newb programmers to their developement crap. YOU BETTER NEVER USE MICROSOFT TOOLS if you want to stay independend.
axel1973w 1 year ago
@axel1973w I guess there aren't any FREE OPEN SOURCE spell checkers. We're not married to the Netduino, nor is our vision so narrow that we would immediately exclude a development platform based on the fact that it isn't GNU GPL. We also use Arduino/Atmel, PIC, PSoC (not open source, gasp!), etc... If you think we only use Netduino, wake up.
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@axel1973w Dude, chill, open source versions of all this stuff is provided by the Mono framework.
kw1ksh0t 2 months ago
@axel1973w Ummm, Netduino is open source, and so is the C# compiler. If you are so afraid of Microsoft (which is ridiculous), use Monodevelop to program for it. MonoDevelop is an open source C# programming environment. C# is NOT a closed-source language, proof by Mono. Nor is its compiler closed source. Visual Studio IS closed source, purely because it is professional software, and isn't required to be in an Open-Source environment. C#, however, ISN'T closed-source
steamisM50 2 months ago
@axel1973w You better change your mindset if you want to find an employer in this field that isn't Canonical or the FSF. Go tell someone in industry you're going to use QT for a nonportable windows application. After all, who seriously uses linux?
HLSDK 1 month ago
@HLSDK We love linux, and are looking forward to some raspberry pi stuff / beagle bone. It's good to diversify though.
HarfordHackerspace 1 month ago
@axel1973w What you're saying is way more close-minded than using closed-source tools. Wake up bro, Linux is updated because IBM, Dell and other companies pay developers to make fixes/new features. There's no project that runs without money, even UNIX-based kernels. And now don't only focus on open-source, GPL etc., just focus on what you need. So what do you REALLY need ? An open-source IDE/compiler, or one of the best IDE, with excellent debug tools and a great support ?
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@axel1973w You can use the free and open source Mono compiler as an alternative to the free (but not open source) Visual Studio Express...on a Linux box if you'd like. Full details on the Mono forum in the Netduino community forums. Visual Studio Express is really nice, but there are supported open source alternatives if you're interested.
netduino 11 months ago
@axel1973w dumb ass. just enjoy this stuff for what it is and quit complaining.. elitist snob
MrSupercracker1 2 months ago
Is it possible to find the source code and the (even if easy) circuit schematics for this project? itn't important if the code and/or schematics are not a perfect example of programming, I'd like to start with netduino at least by looking some already working examples.
tnx!
NothingSoStrange 1 year ago
Why not put the RGB LED on the PWM outputs and feed each channel the 8 bit values from the color meter? then you'd have exact (almost) color reproduction instead of nearest of 3 colors.
hnnnnnghhh 1 year ago
@hnnnnnghhh We thought about that but for the sake of simplicity and lack of time we decided to just leave it as is for now. I'm sure we'll come out with a version 2.0 of this project soon. We used what we had available at the Hackerspace and our RGB LED was cheap and not diffused. So you could see individual colors instead of the colors being mixed into one new color.
Thanks for the comment!
HarfordHackerspace 1 year ago