Prototyping

Did you know that since Meadow.OS v1.6, you can use the Direct Memory Access (DMA) feature on the F7 to do Analog to Digital Conversions (ADC) at an incredibly high sampling rate? While the AnalogInputPort provides a powerful way to do analog port reads…

Check out our awesome series of archived livestream videos in which Wilderness Labs CEO, Bryan Costanich, walks through creating a custom Meadow Core-Compute Module powered GPS/GNSS tracker from start to finish. In this series, he starts with designing the PCB and then goes through…

That’s right! The long-awaited Meadow Core-Compute-Module (CCM) and CCM Dev Kit boards are going out the door to those that have pre-ordered them. If you’re designing production-IoT w/Meadow, these can help you get to production faster, easier, and without the supply chain headache! Meadow F7 CCMs have all…

Hey folks!  Bryan here, I wanted to share some learning we gained around batteries and the supply chain that might be useful in your own battery-powered, IoT solutions.  As a reference IoT kit, Clima is intended to help our customers accelerate their own production-IoT…

I’m starting on a new side project for fun. I want to create a scoring box for fencing (the olympic sport, not building fences). If you don’t know much about fencing, the score box is wired to each fencer and their blade and it…

We’re happy to announce our latest full-stack release, b6.0. We’ve added in-IDE debugging, device config file support, a 20x Graphics Performance, and much more. Debugging – Debugging support in Visual Studio for Windows, macOS, and VS Code! Device/OS Configuration – Device and OS settings are now…

Hello Meadow developers, In this post, I want to show you how to use the Meadow Extension for Visual Studio Code. Installation Download the extension .vsix file from the latest GitHub release. Click File -> Preferences -> Extensions. In the Extensions tab , click the … menu and…

Hello friends, Just wanted to write a blog post about how incredibly easy is to wire up an LCD 20×4 character display (which is included in the Meadow Hack Kit) using Meadow.Foundation. First thing you’ll need to do is search and install the Meadow.Foundation.Displays.LCD.CharacterDisplay…

When working with Netduino, you can literally build hardware at the speed of software. Are you a C# .Net developer that wants to build connected solutions but you feel like you don’t have the knowledge you need to assemble and control hardware? Are you…

Effective immediately, we’ve made a huge price cut on our highest end Netduino models! As of today, July 26, 2018, we’ve lowered the price of a Netduino 3 WiFi from $69.95 USD to $50.00 USD, and a Netduino 3 Ethernet from $59.95 USD to…

In part 1 of this blog series, we looked at the dehydrator system as a whole. In this post in the dehydrator hacking series, we’re going to explore how to control the fan and heater in the dehydrator using relays to regulate temperature. We’ll explore…

In this blog series, I document the process of creating a smart appliance out of my dehydrator. Along the way, I’ll show you just how easy it is to create a sophisticated, connected appliance with Netduino.Foundation, which makes hardware development a plug-and-play experience. We’ll…

When building connected things, the need to provide info to the user and allow interaction and input quickly surfaces. However, building display screens, menus, and providing a way to edit parameters, configure settings, etc, quickly becomes an enormous task. Enter Netduino.Foundation’s TextDisplayMenu: TextDisplayMenu is…

We’ve been hacking some pretty cool things over here at Wilderness Labs. We’re about to post a couple of new awesome projects including a smart chicken coop, and food dehydrator you can control with your phone! But as we got building them, it became…

In part 3 of this series, we enabled our connected coffee maker to be controlled via a Web API using Maple Server. In this part, we’re going to explore how to easily create a mobile app that runs on iOS, Android, and Windows, powered…

In part 2 of this series we built the core of the connected coffee maker by creating what was essentially a smart power outlet that we could control with a Netduino. After assembling the hardware, we deployed an application that controlled our relay to…

Get hacking with our limited edition Wilderness Labs laser-etched and cut birch baseboard and prototyping kit! This awesome baseboard kit fits Netduino (and Arduino) boards, and includes a deluxe half-size breadboard, (40) 8” male-to-male jumpers, (40) 5” male-to-male jumpers, and all the hardware necessary to…

In part 1 of this series we created a power adapter from a USB charger that can be used to power a Netduino when it isn’t plugged into the computer. In this part, we’re going to create what is, in essence, a smart power…

Get your weekend hacking off to a solid start by 3D printing one of these cool prototype baseboards which fit a Netduino (or Arduino) and a half-size breadboard! Head over to our downloads page to grab the files and get printing.