Pete Brown's Blog (POKE 53280,0)
Pete Brown writes on a variety of topics from XAML with the Windows Runtime (WinRT), .NET programming using C#, WPF, Microcontroller programming with .NET Microframework, .NET Gadgeteer, Windows on Devices, and even plain old C, to raising two children in the suburbs of Maryland, woodworking, CNC and generally "making physical stuff". Oh, and Pete loves retro technology, especially Commodore (C64 and C128). If the content interests you, please subscribe using the subscription link to the right of every page.
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CNC
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The Maker Geek Roundup aggregates information of interest to
makers everywhere. Topics include .NET Micro Framework, Arduino,
AVR and other MCUs, CNC, 3d Printing, Robotics, Microsoft Robotics
Studio, Electronics, General Maker stuff, and more. If you have
something interesting you've done or have run across, or you blog
regularly on the topics included here, please send me the URL and
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Published
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 |
Tagged:
CNC, Commodore, Synthesizer, Hardware, c64, Netduino, Micro+Framework, Electronics, Kinect, 3d-Printing, MakerRoundup, Maker |
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The Maker Geek Roundup aggregates information of interest to
makers everywhere. Topics include .NET Micro Framework, Arduino,
AVR and other MCUs, CNC, 3d Printing, Robotics, Microsoft Robotics
Studio, Electronics, General Maker stuff, and more. If you have
something interesting you've done or have run across, or you blog
regularly on the topics included here, please send me the URL and
...
Published
Saturday, April 21, 2012 |
Tagged:
.NET, CNC, Commodore, Synthesizer, c64, Netduino, Electronics, Gadgeteer, GHI-FEZ, 3d-Printing, MakerRoundup, Maker, Arduino |
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For those of you in the US, today is Pi day : 3/14. For those
countries that would call this 14-3, bear with me, as you don't
get any pi pfftth :)
The Maker Geek Roundup aggregates information of interest to
makers everywhere. Topics include .NET Micro Framework, Arduino,
AVR and other MCUs, CNC, 3d Printing, Robotics, Microsoft Robotics
Studio, Electronics, General Maker st...
Published
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 |
Tagged:
.NET, CNC, Commodore, Synthesizer, c64, Netduino, Electronics, Gadgeteer, 3d-Printing, MakerRoundup, Maker, Arduino, PIC |
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The nice thing about CNC, is you can let it run while you do
other stuff. So today, I updated the original program and ran another batch of .NET
Gadgeteer base boards. the quality was much better this time. I had
a little hiccup (maybe some EMF) for two holes in the board but it
recovered by itself after that and completed the rest. Oh, and the
feed rate didn't take until after the first...
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I used to play with CNC a bit. Shortly before my son was
born in 2006, I got involved in different things and left my
Sherline CNC mill to gather dust on the shelf in the shop room. In
fact, due to using that room for storage during mot of the home
renovation and my son's first several years, I couldn't even get to
the machine itself if I wanted to.
About six months ago, I appropriate...
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This past weekend, I made a trip to NYC with my son, primarily
to attend Maker Faire 2011 NYC. This was my first time at a real
maker faire, and my first time at the Hall of Science in New York
City. The Maker Faire is a family-friendly event. IMHO, that means
school-age, as the under 5 set will get bored and tired fairly
quickly.
The Maker Faire covered the gamut of things th...
Published
Monday, September 19, 2011 |
Tagged:
.NET, CNC, Micro+Framework, Robotics, Electronics, Kinect, Gadgeteer, GHI-FEZ, Make, Robotics-Studio, 3d-Printing |
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In addition to all the programming projects I have in my
backlog, plus things like migrating my website to a new provider
(and finishing migrating the old irritatedvowel hobby pages), I
have a number of fun maker-type projects I want to work on in the
near (and distant) future. In most cases, the projects would
require learning something very new - that's the appeal. If I can't
learn so...
Published
Thursday, August 18, 2011 |
Tagged:
Home-Renovation, Hobbies, CNC, Synthesis, Synthesizer, Gadgets, geek, Steam-Engines, Netduino, Micro+Framework, Robotics, Electronics |
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When I first became an MVP in January 2008 there was some questions as to what bucket Silverlight would fit into. After all, it was brand new; the only versions people were using publicly were Silverlight 1 and the Silverlight 1.1 alpha – it would be three more months before Silverlight 2 beta 1 went live, even though the name was changed from 1.1 to 2.0 well before then. At the time, I had acc...
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I like to mess around with computers. Every primary computer I've owned since my first 486 has been built by me (my previous computers, a 286 and a Commodore 128 were purchased). I also run a moderately complex network at my house which I realize I have never fully described anywhere. So, thought I'd tell you about it here. Why My first server was a linux box I had in our last apartment. It w...
