Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio is dead. Microsoft suspended it a year ago and won't support it anymore. Anyway, I am not going to give up. I'm going to "think big". So, the story goes on.
I have a dream building a robot, that uses databases and navigates with maps and geographic coordinates. I will use my former experience in this field and then create something new. Virtual Reality, Internet of Things and Cloud technologies give enormous challenges.
Currently robotic rovers are widely used and there is no pioneer work. I believe the ideas will pop-up. Now it is a learning time and combine the technologies I used earlier in my career. Typically I have been involved building prototypes and make pioneer work and I still love to do it. It is very challenging and needs hard work without counting hours.
I have been a Microsoft guy all my professional life and I believe that Microsoft is still innovating, not stuck in past. I have seen new Microsoft keynotes and I have a reason to believe so. Microsoft has now a new free Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition that is at professional level. It will be my tool and I will use C# as a programming language.
Other option is to use Open Source platforms that are mainly used in robotics. Learning curve is too steep and I would need more time than with Microsoft technology that I have known. Software business is very dynamic and it can be possible that I have to go the Open Source, e.g. ROS (Robot Operating System with Linux). Anyway, the time is not wasted, because the software foundation is pretty same in all technologies.
Let's start with Eddie the robot.
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