Beta

It wasn’t too long ago that the release process for the Meadow stack was…let’s just call it horribly inefficient. From when we decided “time to ship a build” to when NuGets were available was literally measured in days. It was a process that we…

As we work hard towards our biggest Meadow update yet, we just rolled out a beta build of our command line tool, Meadow.CLI, that will help make flashing, deploying files, listen to COM ports and more, work more reliably. Open a terminal and type:…

In this post shows you how I performs a full stack update, meaning updates for the Meadow.CLI, Meadow.OS binaries, Visual Studio extensions, and Meadow.Foundation drivers and updates. Check out our Release Notes to see all the latest changes in every beta release. Updating your…

Drawing images on a display is pretty much table-stakes for any sort of display-based application, and embedded software is no exception. Meadow Foundation‘s MicroGraphics Library is our go-to for drawing things like lines, shapes and text, but it wasn’t terribly friendly for drawing images….

We have now released our last beta update of the year, VS2022 extension! – Meadow officially supports Visual Studio 2022! Open the Manage Extensions dialog in Visual Studio to install. The existing extension for VS2019 and VSCode has also been updated with more stability…

Hi folks, Jorge here, and in this post I wanted to point out a few things to consider when upgrading your Meadow Application from a F7v1 to a F7v2 board. While both may look very similar at first sight, F7v2 packs a number of…

About a year ago I was working on a project for an NVIDIA Jetson Nano that used four pretty common and easy to find peripheral devices. As a long-time embedded .NET developer, I decided that using the .NET IoT library was probably the route…

We’re happy to announce our latest full-stack release, b6.0. We’ve added in-IDE debugging, device config file support, a 20x Graphics Performance, and much more. Debugging – Debugging support in Visual Studio for Windows, macOS, and VS Code! Device/OS Configuration – Device and OS settings are now…

Meadow b5.3 is out, and it’s our most stable and complete release yet. We spent a lot of effort fixing issues introduced in b5.1/b5.2, and also added SQLite support to Meadow! Big changes and fixes include: SQLite Support – SQLite is now built into Meadow.OS…

This is a small release that mainly focuses on cleanup of Meadow.Foundation, and fixing Bluetooth (which we broke in b5.1): BLE Fix – We broke the Bluetooth stack (among other small things) in b5.1 due to issues with our CI release pipeline. Most of the…

We have now shipped another full stack update for Meadow, meaning new Meadow.OS binaries, Meadow.CLI, NuGet packages and VS Extension updates. The major highlights for this release are: Full .NET Standard 2.1 – We moved all the projects over to .NET Standard 2.1. (Last release…

If you’re running beta 5.1 we released just now, after completing a full stack update from Meadow.OS to the VS Extension, you’ll also need to update your Meadow Application projects. In this post I’m going to show you how to do that. In beta…

Hello Meadow developers, In this post, I want to show you how to use the Meadow Extension for Visual Studio Code. Installation Download the extension .vsix file from the latest GitHub release. Click File -> Preferences -> Extensions. In the Extensions tab , click the … menu and…

In late September, 1999, Nasa’s Mars Climate Orbiter prepared to enter a stable orbit around the Red Planet to serve as a comms relay for the 1998 Mars Polar Lander and monitor climate on the planet below.  Launched December the year before, the USD$125MM…

And it’s the biggest release we’ve ever put out, with a pile of new features and goodies, including: Bluetooth v1.0 – That’s right, BLE support is here. Check out the Bluetooth Guide for details. .NET Standard 2.1 API Support – Meadow now fully supports…

This is another huge release with some really tasty new goodies, including: HttpListener Support – You can now turn your Meadow into a web server with HttpServer. TextDisplayMenu – Meadow.Foundation now has a new library called TextDisplayMenu that allows for easy menu creation and…

Guess what? Today we shipped Meadow b4.5 and it’s a huge leap forward for our networking stack with two major pieces to it: TLS/SSL Support – So you can call your favorite `https` service endpoints. This should open up services like MQTT, Azure IoT,…

Hello Makers, As you probably know by now, we rolled out a new beta with updates on Meadow.CLI, Meadow.OS, Meadow.Core and Meadow.Foundation, so be sure to flash your devices with our latest Deploy Meadow.OS instructions and update all your NuGet packages to make sure…