motorshield and fez panda or netuino

[dafoink]

I have had great success with the motorshield on the arduino. has anyone used it on a .NETMF platform?

[adafruit]

we think the netduino folks got it working, maybe check their forums?

[chriswalker]

I have had great success with the motorshield on the arduino. has anyone used it on a .NETMF platform?

Hi dafoink,

You should be able to use the Adafruit motor shield on your Netduino.

The one thing to watch out for is that the Netduino's ARM microcontroller only has 4 PWMs instead of 6 PWMs like the Arduino's AVR microcontroller. So you won't be able to use the "outermost two PWMs" or whatever they are connected to on the motor shield.

All that said, we're working on an update which will add software PWM to Netduino. Since the ARM processor is 48MHz, we're going to use some of that extra speed to do 8-bit+ PWM in the background...which should re-enable at least one of those 2 other PWMS (and let you run PWM on any pin--including the analog ones).

Chris
Secret Labs LLC

[dafoink]

sounds good. do you know if anyone has come up with a library for the fez? I have an arduino and it works great with that. but since I am a c# programmer, developing on the fez is so much easier