zmashiah always wanted to have a nice weather station that would hang on the wall and display current weather and forecast. So he started a netduino based project with all features he wanted. As you may know netduino arduino shaped powerful board that houses AT91SAM7X512 ARM microcontroller and can be programmed using C#. It already has a 100mbps ethernet and microSD socket.

He attached a graphical display to indicate all data including time, date, current weather info. It connects to Weather underground to pull information. It automatically detects location, daylights savings. Weather forecast includes next 3 days where you can see high and low temperatures, humidity and wind. Iconized display makes it look really professional.

If you have some property located remotely without telephone you probably still want to ensure its security. Remote Cabin Monitor (RCM) was designed to keep an eye on property and send messages via shortwave link.

Glen Worstell have put a system out of LPC2132 based ARM board (KEI MCB2130) and some external components so he could perform following control operations: periodically enable radio system so it could listen for incoming commands. Then decode received DSP signals, read parameters like battery level, perimeter breach, temperature, bilge pump and then transmit status message back.

Probably you are familiar with Netduino hardware. It is an open source 32-bit MCU based platform which can be programmed using .NET Micro Framework. Its like Arduino but more powerful as it is ARM powered. So couple of friends (Fabien and Bertrand) have designed a game console along with software framework.

It allows fast step in in to game development. Programing language is C# which makes great resource for learning new stuff. Game expansion PCB for Netduino has 2 analog joystics, 8×8 LED matrix, speaker, SD card reader. It can be battery or wall adapter powered. Wouldn’t mind a better screen resolution instead 8×8, but still this should be fun playing with. This is an open source/hardware project which seems to be actively maintained.

This might be great tool for makers and hackers. This STM32F203 based board is using a generic USB_TO_XXX protocol and is able to provide over 10 useful interfaces like JTAG, SWD, SPI, IIC.

Despite various direct protocols it also gives more advanced functionality like timing control, pooling, nesting and other high level functions. This is a great starting point for various devices like logic analyzers, probes, scopes, programmers – and even more with additional circuits. Project is open-source and is available in KiCAD format.