I'm looking for a relativity cheap .net Micro Framework development board for use on a personal robotics project. I'd don't need much for I/O, but I want at least one serial port and one Ethernet port.
I would prefer not to have to spend more than $300 on the board, but if there is an obvious reason to get a better one I'm flexible.
Currently I'm looking at this device from SJJ Embedded Micro Solutions. Has anyone had experience with this device?
I have not had experience with the SJJ Embedded board but I might just have to give it a shot.
I'm working on a robotics project as a hobby and I'm currently prototyping with Lego Mindstorms and the Robotics SDK from Microsoft. I had planned on swapping to an Arduino which uses a C-like programming language and weighs in at around $30 assembled.
Here are two different boards that I have been researching. Both of these are around $100.00 and are meant for the hobbyist. Neither of these boards has ethernet on the board, but is relatively easy to add by adding an external ethernet module
This looks very cool. And only 30$.
And this Plus version with ethernet.
FEZ-Panda is now on sale for 20 USD +shipping.
It is a 74Mhz ARM devboard with Arduino compatible connectors + a lot more IO. It has open source firmware and fully supports the .net micro framework as well as JTAG connector to use for everything else. Supports runtime debugging (breakpoints, variable inspection, stepping, etc.) Use Visual C# 2010 Express Edition for development. Supports networking with Ethernet shield.
See more at http://www.tinyclr.com/compare/
On the same site there is a more complex devboard - FEZ Cobra - which has onboard ethernet connector for 150 USD.