Programming – first tips

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 29 2010 | Comments (4)
We are waiting for the PCB manufacturer for the new prototypes and we plan to start first hundreds pcs production during July. In the meantime we are working on the software side to give the first “hello world” with WI-Fi code to let people start the...

RTC, just in time

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 25 2010 | Comments (0)
We receive lot of emails everyday about some features to add to our new version of the WI-FI module (we changed to switch to the 256K Flash 24F) and we discuss every single suggest. One of these arrived from a student of the Bologna University, his name’s...

World Famous Magazine…will talk about us!

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 22 2010 | Comments (0)
I just received an email from the editor of a worldwide well known magazine that speaks only about wireless.We got in touch from a long time and I’m really happy that he decided to give space to the openPICUS project. I can’t tell now the details (for...

Memory…not enough!

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 18 2010 | Comments (0)
We are working on the new PCB release of WIFI module since from our first testing the 64K PIC 24F version is too small. TCP stack is quite heavy and even if we reduced something there’s only 1,5K Free memory…not enough! So we decided to change the processor...

Wireless Forum….flop!

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 17 2010 | Comments (0)
As annunced we exposed openPICUS at the RF&Wireless forum in Milan on 15th June. The event was a real disaster, not more than 40 visitors were there. Maybe in the Internet era it’s time for fair and events to do something new, something different from...

openPICUS project logo

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 10 2010 | Comments (5)
Like always…we are late again! We have to print the totem for the Wireless Forum (15th June) and we just designed the logo of the openpicus project. We wanted something very simple, smart looking and without any specific style, we just brainstormed and one...

Meet us at Wireless forum 2010

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 08 2010 | Comments (0)
We are glad to meet you at Wireless Forum 2010 (15 June) in Milan. We’ll show you the picus module and we are running to develop a webserver application to let you test with your smartphone. You can see details and get your free entrance ticket on http://www.fortronic.it/page.asp?pag=1282&eveid=133#eve

Brutus download

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 04 2010 | Comments (0)
Here’s the Brutus bootloader (DS30 modified for picus), source code and hex file. http://code.google.com/p/openpicus/downloads/list

IDE development, wanna contribute?

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 03 2010 | Comments (8)
Here we are, testing on modules are going ahead and we are busy with the IP stack and with the first Hello World applications to let developers start faster. Now we need your help, we need expert programmer that will develop a simple IDE for PICUS platform. Basically...

Bootloader, BRUTUS, works!

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 02 2010 | Comments (2)
This is the first post after an amazing experience like a blinking led Well it’s amazing since it’s the first time we downloaded the firmware into picus WIFI module using the DS30 bootloader that we modified for our platform (and we called it BRUTUS). Steps:1....