Building Device Software Components
The .NET Micro Framework provides device drivers for many hardware components. These sit between your software and the physical interfaces that allow a program to interact with the outside world. We already discovered how to use some of these in Chapter 4. In this section, we will go into a little more detail and illustrate how you can create a message-based component and then use it in a situation where the program polls the data source.
An Embedded, Event-Driven Software Component
The basis of this work is an event-driven Global Positioning System (GPS) decoder. You could use it to make a flashlight that is location-aware and can record where and when it was last used.
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