Shared Phidgets
With the Shared Phidgets Toolkit developers can easily create new applications based on distributed physical user interface elements. These Phidget devices are USB components, e.g. servos, sliders, motion sensors, temperature sensors, buttons, LED, RFID reader and Text LC displays.
Note:
This page contains the documentation of the older version 2.0/2.5 of the Shared Phidgets toolkit. You can find the most recent version of the toolkit on the following page:
New Shared Phidgets Toolkit Version 3.0...
Contents
Download and Installation
- Shared Phidgets toolkit download page (New: Version 2.5 for Visual Studio 2005)
- Shared Phidgets NEWS weblog
The setup installs all required tools: Shared Phidgets server, connector and controller. The .NET components and interface skins are automatically added to a new toolbox in Visual Studio 2002, 2003, and 2005.
Recipes and How-To's
- How to use the Connection Manager
- How to close the connection to the server
- How to get the shared dictionary
- How to get information from a Shared Phidgets Dictionary path
- How to filter Phidgets by serial number or location
- How to get the selected phidget device from the Phidget Manager Skin
- How to edit the connector-config.xml file
- Path conventions in the Shared Dictionary
- How to iterate through all available Phidget devices
- How to work with Metadata
Troubleshooting:
- How to check if I can reach another network computer
- How to determine a computers IP address: use the ipconfig command to show the current IP settings.
Getting started
- What's good to know (ReadMeFirst!) before programming applications with the SharedPhidgets toolkit
- Getting started with the SharedPhidgets infrastructure: The important steps to setup and work with the SharedPhidgets infrastructure
- Getting started with SharedPhidgets programming: The general steps to develop SharedPhidgets applications
- The SharedPhidgets "Hello World" program: Opens a connection to the server and displays devices in the PhidgetManagerSkin.
Tutorials
- Setup a new SharedPhidgets server
- Using the Shared Phidgets Connector
- Moving Phidgets.NET applications to SharedPhidgets: How to use the existing Phidgets.NET applications with the new SharedPhidgets toolkit.
Examples Step-by-step
Links
- Shared Phidgets: A Toolkit for Rapidly Prototyping Distributed Physical User Interfaces. Academic paper, Marquardt, N. and Greenberg, S. (2006), Report 2006-829-22, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4. April.
- Phidgets Inc. Here you can buy the Phidget devices. The user forum is very useful for new information about Phidgets.
- Phidgets USA
- Shared Phidgets Completed Features and Wishlist
- Shared Phidgets Bugreport
- Shared Phidgets Developer Page