We are excited to announce that we'll be cross stocking Seeed's gadgeteer modules. This will help expand our current list of offerings. GHI will also be including all needed Seeed module drivers right inside the GHI package installer, found at http://www.tinyclr.com/support/

In our continued commitment to the open source community, GHI Electronics is proud to announce we're open sourcing our Glide GUI library under GPL License. The project has been placed on CodePlex so we can begin to work together to further its features and performance. We're also offering a non-GPL License with four consulting hours for the low price of $249.95.

http://netmfglide.codeplex.com

GHI Electronics is proudly contributing to the open-source-hardware community and .NET Gadgeteer community. We have released the complete sources for numerous Gadgeteer modules and for FEZ Hydra, which is the first 100% open-source .NET Gadgeteer mainboard. Armed with a 240Mhz ARM9 processor, FEZ Hydra is a powerful solution that's even capable of running Linux.

What's special about the NETMF/Gadgeteer board is that its firmware is compiled with open-source GCC compiler. Which means the community is able to modify and contribute easily. The board is also designed in EAGLE, a low-cost professional PCB design software commonly used with open-source hardware.

At only $79.95 for the mainboard and $99.95 for the starter kit, FEZ Hydra is a compelling solution at an affordable price.

A $500 coupon for running Linux on FEZ Hydra: http://tinyclr.com/forum/21/4930
A $250 coupon + free FEZ Hydra contest: http://tinyclr.com/forum/21/4680/
FEZ Hydra product page: http://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/product/328
For more information about .NET Gadgeteer visit: http://www.netmf.com/gadgeteer/
Design sources and porting info: http://wiki.tinyclr.com/index.php?title=FEZ_Hydra_Developer

GHI Electronics is proudly contributing to the open-source-hardware community and .NET Gadgeteer community. We have released the complete sources for over ten modules and are still adding more. Also, we are introducing FEZ Hydra, the first 100% open-source .NET Gadgeteer mainboard. FEZ Hydra is a powerful 240Mhz ARM9 hardware, enough to even run Linux!

What's special about the NETMF/Gadgeteer board is that its firmware is compiled with open-source GCC compiler. Which means the community is able to modify and contribute easily. The board is also designed in EAGLE, a low-cost professional PCB design software commonly used with open-source hardware.

An economical price is one of the main goals for FEZ Hydra. It is priced at only $79.95, with a starter kit, for only $99.

FEZ Hydra is currently only offered to community contributors. If you have experience with NETMF Porting Kit, please contact GHI Electronics http://www.ghielectronics.com/contact/. Preorders starts in December 2011. All design files and source code files will be available in December 2011 as well.

More details on FEZ Hydra are found at http://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/product/328
For more information about .NET Gadgeteer visit: http://www.netmf.com/gadgeteer/

GHI is excited to have completed shipping all FEZ Spider Starter Kit pre-orders. Thanks to all those who supported us by placing orders and gave us enough patience while we shipped them.

Here is a blog post, with a nice unboxing video, from one of GHI's customers:
http://devhammer.net/blog/are-you-a-gadgeteer

For more information on FEZ Spider and .NET Gadgeteer:
http://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/category/265/