I have talked a bunch about some of the cool DIY stuff that I have seen around the web that geeks use Arduino to build. My favorite DIY stuff that people build using Arduino are robots like the ...

Ever had an idea for a gadget but not the faintest idea how to get started? The good news is it may be easier to build than you think. Building a prototype electronic device has never been cheaper or ...

DIY gadgets' makers have a new solution for quick and easy building of custom devices in the form of the .NET Gadgeteer platform. Utilizing .NET Micro Framework and C# programming language, .NET ...

Watch out Arduino, you finally have some competition: the equally-open-source and possibly-easier-to-program Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer. At its core, Gadgeteer is an ARM7-powered .NET Micro ...

Just last week Microsoft officially signed off the release to manufacturing (RTM) build of Windows Phone 7 Mango, the latest update of the mobile platform. Along with its update comes the new voice-to ...

A toolkit for building small electronic gadgets using the .NET Micro Framework from Microsoft. Available from various electronics companies, hardware geared to .NET Gadgeteer includes small circuit ...

Hardware hackers building their own gadgets may want to take a look at a new offering from Microsoft that promises to save time in prototyping new devices: a software development platform for ...

Microsoft has thrown its hat into the open source hardware hobby market. Their offering is called the Gadgeteer. We’d love to tell you all about it, but the big M didn’t make it very easy to find out ...

A few days ago, we saw a dev time trial between the Arduino and Phidgets, a somewhat proprietary dev board that is many times more expensive than an Arduino. The time trial was a simple experiment to ...