{"id":38057,"date":"2011-08-04T20:20:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T20:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/microsoft-has-released-a-new-rapid-prototyping\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:40:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:40:52","slug":"microsoft-has-released-a-new-rapid-prototyping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/microsoft-has-released-a-new-rapid-prototyping\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-38057 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/microsoft-has-released-a-new-rapid-prototyping\/attachment\/38058\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lpf75vGzYX1qene28o1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Microsoft has released a new rapid prototyping toolkit that promises to let electronic enthusiasts put together small gadgets in a matter of hours. Devices built with the kit, dubbed .NET Gadgeteer, include an MP3 player, digital camera, and a mini arcade cabinet. At the heart of the kit is a main circuit board with an embedded processor and a variety of sockets that can be linked with other .NET Gadgeteer modules. These include a touchscreen, a camera, LEDs, buttons, and USB and SD card interfaces, all of which can be slotted together like electronic Lego without the need for soldering. On the software side, Microsoft has set up a website to share the open-source code that controls the various .NET Gadgeteer modules. Users can also write their own software in C#, a popular programming language. &ldquo;It started out as an internal tool at Microsoft Research Cambridge, but its appeal to people outside the lab quickly became evident,&rdquo; says Steve Hodges, principal hardware engineer at Microsoft Research Cambridge. &ldquo;The open source release will make this powerful technology available to others, including the hobbyists, teachers, researchers and developers who have given us such positive feedback to date,&rdquo; he says. Microsoft is also working on ways to turn your loose collection of circuit boards into a more serious construction, such as building a case to house your electronics using a 3D printer. For more on how 3D printing is changing the way we make things, check out our recent special report. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blogs\/onepercent\/2011\/08\/microsoft-releases-toolkit-to.html\">One Per Cent: Build your own gadget with Microsoft&rsquo;s Lego for adults<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released a new rapid prototyping toolkit that promises to let electronic enthusiasts put together small gadgets in a matter of hours. Devices built with the kit, dubbed .NET Gadgeteer, include an MP3 player, digital camera, and a mini arcade cabinet. At the heart of the kit is a main circuit board with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-38057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9TP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38059,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38057\/revisions\/38059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}