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Why you want to use Microsoft's Gadgeteer

Now I have to say I'm a huge Gadgeteer fan, but this would be an example of why you would consider Gadgeteer for your future Gadget Projects.

Team Ohiti is a New Zealand group that is trying to protect indigenous species from invasive species and are using some traps (Goodnature »www.goodnature.co.nz ) to help eliminate invasive rats, Stoats, Possums, etc but wanted a way to track how these traps were doing. Enter a friend of mine Justin who built a Gadgeteer based system which tracks when the traps fire and then uses a mesh network of sensors using RF Pipes as the communication protocol which pumps the data up to an API hosted in Azure where they can surface this data with alerts to a web portal and win 8 app. Justin created a number of Gadgeteer hardware components including the very cool RF Pipe module (I have a number of these and they are very cool). More on the project here:

»www.ghielectronics.com/community···8&page=1

Gadgeteer Rocks!!

Blake
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Vendor: Author of Link Logger which is a traffic analysis and firewall logging tool

That was interesting, i could use a few of those rat traps here for the chipmonks.

I used to work in process control so i can see where this can be used in many place. Nice wireless RF network and i never had heard about Gadgeteer. Reading here explains it well »gadgeteer.codeplex.com/