The three TelemetrySensor Arduino apps that mimic the desktop/phone Universal app UI functions are created by copying and appropriately editing the ToDoItem Arduino apps.

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This blog presents a simple JSon parser in the Arduino context for the ToDo sketch  that extracts the data entities from each record. in the JSon string.

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The Universal ToDoItems Microsoft Azure Mobile Services sample app runs on Desktop Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows RT. In Parts 3 of this blog, it was demonstrated as to how to action these functions via a command line, using cURL.exe. In this blog we will action those same actions from an Arduino device.

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In this post we'll see a big difference on "string interning" mechanism between .Net Framework and .Net Micro Framework ...

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Some hints to do with networking an Arduino device.

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Examples of cURL command lines for various table operations with Microsoft Azure Mobile Services.

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An Azure Mobile Service table can be simply manipulated via a command line app called cURL.exe

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  This is a follow on to my previous two posts Power managment on Beaglebone AM335x platform part 1 and Power management on Beaglebone part 2-Battery for the community IoT BSP at BeagleBone BSP. The first two parts I discussed the background of battery support and some of the hardware modifications that are needed for the BeagleBone Black platform. I also talked about the AM335x’s on chip analog to digital converter (A/D or ADC) and how it can be used to measure voltage signals like battery voltage. We developed an A/D converter driver and test program and integrated it into the BSP. The next step in the process is to pull it altogether by developing a battery driver. The battery driver will, of course, be dependent on the A/D driver so we must make sure the A/C driver is loaded first. We can do this by modifying the drivers “Order” setting. For example here are the ADC registry setting: IF BSP_AM33X_ADC [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\ADC1]     "Prefix"="AD ...

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Developing on all versions of the .Net Framework (full, compact and micro) I have always the portability problem and I avoid to use methods that are not available in one of three framework or using directives for precompilation.

It never happened a case where the method exists in all the frameworks but the parameters have a different meaning ... are even reversed !!

The method in question is the overload Regex.Split(String, String, RegexOptions) !

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How to modify the Mobile Services sample ToDo List application into something useful.

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