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A few people have had some troubles communicating with the Tahoe over USB.  The culprit in every case to date as been power.   The short story is that you need to make sure you connect directly to your PC, and not through a hub.

When we orignally designed the Tahoe, we intended to power it from a plug-pack.  Later, we found that it ran fine off the USB power, and was well within the spec while doing so.   Using USB made the product a whole lot nicer to use, as well as build and ship.

The catch is that you need to plug directly into your PC (or laptop), and NOT through an unpowered hub.  We have also found that some laptops do not supply power according to the USB standard, but this seems to be a rare occurance.

So, if you are having trouble with USB comms – make sure you don’t have a hub connected, or try a desktop PC.

Pavel Bánský has an excellent post on how to control servos from the .NET Micro Framework.  It has sample code and a video!

We ship our products from New Zealand, and I know this immediately raises the question: “how much will it cost me in shipping to <insert your country here>”.   The best way to find out is to go part way through the order process.  Add the products you a thinking about buying to the cart, and press the “Checkout” button.  On the next screen (Delivery Details), you can change the country, and scroll down to see the total cost of the order!

In case you were wondering – here is everything you ever wanted to know about Eketahuna!

The Ethernet add-on board for Tahoe is available!  You can buy it online here.

Once you have the board, Microsoft has some great articles on the .NET Micro Framework home page covering sockets programming and DPWS. 

Now that we have Ethernet support, we are investigating adding WiFi support also.  Is this something that would be useful (or essential?) for your project?   Comment away… 

Our new support fourms are online!

This is a great place to search for solutions, ask (and answer) questions, or just tell the world about your latest .NET Micro Framework project! 

The forums are open for anyone to view, but you need to register on the Device Solutions web site to be able to post.  You can do this with your Windows Live ID so you don’t need to worry about remembering yet another password

Meridian/P is our new Micro Dev Board, which incorporates all the features of the Meridian CPU in a prototype-friendly package.  You have a USB connector on the board for download and debug of code, and plenty of easy-to-access headers for adding all the bits you need.  It also supports the SchmartBoard form-factor so prototyping with surface mount components won’t slow you down!

The kit package includes the board, a USB cable and 0.1″ headers which you can solder as you please.

Our web store has stock now, and our distributors will have stock next week.

We have just released a new firmware build for Meridian/P that supports the Ethernet adapter board.

The firmware includes SSL and DPWS support.  You can download it here.

Please read this document before you hook up the Ethernet board as there is one issue that could let the smoke out of the Meridian/P if you do it wrong!

We have also released a new version of the standard build that fixes an application deployment issue that some people were seeing.