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A Windows 10 IoT core image is now available for the Raspberry Pi2 ARM board, when Windows 10 IoT core is running you can establish an HTTP connection to access the Web Manager and see the configuration and activity on the board.
Whether it’s Internet of Things, Internet of Your Things, Internet of Very Different Things or simply IoT, it’s a Mega trend that is taking shape, projected to be bigger than the PC and Smartphone markets combined.
In my last blog post I showed how to
transfer IoT data over the network using the M2MQTT library. But how, you may
ask, do you acquire the data in the first place? Well, chances are you have some
kind of sensor, be it temperature, pressure, accelerometer or what have you.
These sensors, more than likely, interface to the IoT node processor via some
kind of bus. It could be I2C, SPI, CAN, LIN or any number of others in the
alphabet soup. By far the two most popular low level sensor buses are I2C and
SPI. I2C stands for Inter-Integrated Circuit and was invented by Philips
Semiconductor (now NXP Semiconductor), SPI stand for Serial Peripheral Interface
invented by Motorola.
In this example I will show how we can interface to these buses using managed
code (C#) in Visual Studio 2013. I will use the BeagleBone Black as the platform
running Windows Embedded Compact 2013. A prebuilt demo image is available at my
Codeplex site along with all the source code for the
example.
To start I wired a prototyp ...