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I build a new Arduino device this weekend. I was ill and had much time chilling at home and hacked this:

It is a TA01-11 LED matrix from Kingbright. It was a little bit tricky to figure out how it works because it was the first matrix I played with but at the end everything worked fine… ;) Thanks to Rafael for this great hacking session!

You could find more information and the code on my Arduino TA07-11 5×7 Dot Matrix Display page. Have fun!

I got my new toy some minutes ago. A Netduino!

Netduino is an open source electronics platform using the .NET Micro Framework. The idea is taken from the Arduino platform but the difference is, that the Netduino is being programmed in .NET and it has a much more powerful 32-bit microcontroller onboard. It is an AT91SAM7X512 with the following specs:

• Atmel 32-bit microcontroller
• Speed: 48MHz, ARM7
• Code Storage: 128 KB
• RAM: 60 KB

Hopefully I could develop with the Mono project for it but at first I will do my work in a Microsoft based environment. Sounds contradictory? Yes, it is… but I want to give it a try… ;)

I am a little bit it ill at the moment but it will be a funny weekend when playing with this nice piece of hardware.

I just want to write a note about Tiny Core Linux. I really like it. It is about 10MB in size and it boots with X and a very minimal Desktop in about 15 – 20 seconds using VirtualBox. I recommend to give it a try. Just download the ISO file and boot it. When booted you are able to install Firefox, gcc, GTK+, Text Editors and much more…