Post : Netduino gets a huge upgrade
URL : http://hackaday.com/2012/11/09/netduino-gets-a-huge-upgrade/
Posted : November 9, 2012 at 5:08 am
Author : Brian Benchoff
Tags : arm, netduino
Categories : ARM, hardware

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The Netduino, a dev board built around the .NET Micro framework with the goal of being compatible with Arduino shields just got a huge upgrade (http://forums.netduino.com/index.php?/topic/6554-introducing-netduino-plus-2/) .

The new Netduino Plus 2 features an upgraded STM32 ARM Cortex-M4 uC running at 168 MHz, improving on the original Netduino's ARM7 running at 47 MHz. In addition to some more processing power, the STM32-based microcontroller has twice the RAM and six times as much Flash memory. Also, Ethernet (10Mbps), a MicroSD card port, and of course compatibility with all Arduino shields - including the new Arduino 'Revision C' boards for the Leonardo - remains intact.

In keeping with the design goals of the Netduino, the new board uses the .NET Micro Framework running under Windows. It looks like OS X and Linux users won't be left out in the cold for long, though; there's a project to port the .NET Micro stuff over to Mono (http://forums.netduino.com/index.php?/topic/21-preview-of-mono-support/) .

Tip 'o the hat to [Jason] for sending this one in.

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