Next project in queue - a mikroBUS.NET board

MikroElectronica produces a variety of hardware boards designed to ease the building of complex projects. To standardize the connections, they have come up with the mikroBus specification. Unlike the Arduino platforms, it specifies the type of function for each pin instead of simply breaking out all the pins from the MicroController.

The specification as found on the MikroElectronica site.

Various folks from the GHI forum and Oberon Microsystems  have undertaken building a .NET MicroFramework version of this system -  mikroBUS.NET. There are currently 2 mainboards under development: the Dalmatian with 2 mikroBUS sockets and the Quail with 4 sockets.

  

Dalamtian

Quail

Recently Bec a Fuel posted the progress of this endeavor in the form of a video demonstrating the brand new (and still underdevelopment) Quail board with various modules, NETMF framework and NETMF drivers running the Click boards.

To assist with the project, I'll be building a MBN (mikroBUS.NET) board and will be documenting the process for others to avoid my mistakes ;)