RSS and Weather Application
Introduction
A time ago I looked around for project idea’s for my Embedded Master TFT Development System I looked at a movie from Microsoft showcasing posible uses for .NET Micro Framework. In this movie one thing clearly stands out, keeping updated. I tought this was a good idea so I started working on this project. It displays the current Time and Date, The weather for one or more locations and the latest headlines for your favorite RSS feeds. Possible addons that I could think of are stock quotes, but that’s not implemented right now. Main features that are included:
- Getting and displaying the current weather
- Getting and displaying RSS Feeds
- Synchronize with a NTP Time server
For the Weather I use the Weather service from Yahoo (Info) giving free access to many weather stations around the world.
Sorry for the quality of the movie, The camera had trouble focusing.
Download:
You can download the full Visual Studio 2005 Solution: RSS_And_Weather.zip
I know its about a year since you’ve posted this but I just found it. Thats very cool stuff! I’ve been looking at these digital picture frames that they sell thinking “what can I hack together to get one of these to display weather radar and also text information such as weather warnings and weather watches”..
Fun stuff! Hope to see more!