Monday, 10 October 2016

Running Windows 10 IoT Core in a Raspi 3 Hardware?

It sounds that Microsoft has made the entry into the Internet of Things (IoT) OS segment a bit late. But nevertheless the impressions are pretty great with the awesome features and experience with Window 10 IoT Core.

If you have experience in  running OS like Raspbian Jessy, Ubuntu and other flavours of Raspberry OS, then the way Window 10 IoT Core installed and managed in a Raspberry Pi3 hardware are very much different indeed.

The steps in making the Window 10 IoT to live inside the SD Card is pretty simple.
Using Windows Core Image Helper to create SD Card image
It is Booting Time!


The Main Screen with Device Info

IoT Dashboard - you Deploy and Run apps from remote
Don't Scratch your head with the resemblance of SCRATCH!
Build in Tutorials & Sample Apps

Tips on connecting with Visual Studio remotely

My setup and first Hello Blinky Program in Window 10 IoT!

Yep - The LED blinks connected to GPIO port

As usual the "Hello World" program here used to be a LED blinking program which gives you a feel of wetting yourself with the Win 10 IoT Core!