.NET nanoFramework

MOGWAI NANO 0.4 is out on the GitHub repository. What’s new A real library system makes its debut. Units let you store reusable MOGWAI NANO code directly on flash — an RTC helper library, a sensor wrapper, any piece of logic you don’t want to copy-paste from project to project. Installed remotely from Studio, executed … Read more

MOGWAI NANO 0.3 is out on the GitHub repository — the densest release since launch. What’s new A display makes its debut. The SSD1306, the most common 128×64 OLED display on the market, is now natively supported — text, pixels, lines, filled or outlined rectangles, and 1-bit-per-pixel image drawing. Rather than drawing pixel-by-pixel in RPN, … Read more

MOGWAI NANO 0.2 is out on the GitHub repository — the first update since going public, and it brings real substance. What’s new I2C makes its debut, with seven primitives covering the essentials — opening and closing a device by name, reading and writing raw data or specific registers, scanning the bus to discover what’s … Read more

Building MOGWAI NANO taught me a lot about .NET nanoFramework — not from the official documentation, but from the field, through multi-hour endurance tests and bugs that only surfaced after twenty minutes or two hours of runtime. Some of these behaviors are documented somewhere, quietly. Others, I found nowhere before living through them myself. This … Read more