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Am I the only one getting excited more and more packaged solutions are available for .NET developers to control mechanical wonders?
http://www.robotshop.com/ghi-fez-rhino-net-microcontroller.html
http://www.tinyclr.com/
http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/777/resources
http://www.mindsqualls.net/MotorControl.aspx
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Wow, times sure have changed! Seems like yesterday (actually it was 10 years ago) that I drove an X10 module from my PC's serial port from a Java app.
/ravi
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Time is changing and seems to me after .NET, smartphones, next waves of innovation is smart mechanical devices - perhaps we've moved far enuf with software (but not so much in AI) and unfortunately, success in software development outpaced developments in mechanical devices.
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Agreed. I think it's a matter of time before wearables support NFC and RFID. I'm not sure I like where this is going (or if this is even necessary), but I suspect it will happen. And of course the more mainstream this technology becomes, the more we need to watch out for presence hacking (did I just create a new term)?
/ravi
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Smart Homes, if you will have been on the drawing boards for many years but has not been cheap enough to go main stream. In some areas new home construction includes the wiring but not the smarts in all cases.
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devvvy wrote: Am I the only one getting excited
Yes. Yes you are.
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I think it's great that Microsoft has finally added - through third parties - the ability to control hardware directly to the .Net toolbox. It's a nice development. Of course, that's exactly what Java was designed to do, 20 years ago or so, and has done nicely for all that time.
What would make .Net really useful for people in the trenches dealing with hardware would be a branch off the Framework tree containing MODBUS and DNP modules that supersede the cooperative multi-tasking model of Windows and allow pre-emptive execution priorities. Being able to model a piece of hardware using classes designed for real-time control would be an awesome addition to the library.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: What would make .Net really useful for people in the trenches dealing with
hardware would be a branch off the Framework tree containing MODBUS and DNP
modules that supersede the cooperative multi-tasking model of Windows and allow
pre-emptive execution priorities.
I suppose we could then use .NET to control our nuclear reactors.
I would move a thousand miles away if that happens. 
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devvvy wrote: Am I the only one getting excited more and more packaged solutions are available
for .NET developers to control mechanical wonders?
Robotics and programmatic control have been around for a long time if that wasn't obvious.
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dude, read before you open your mouth - i said .NET robotics packages
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I read it. I didn't see the point as to why .Net had much to do with it.
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