OpenPicus found home: we are at Tecnopolo Tiburtino I-Tech (Rome)

Posted by openPicus | On: Jul 30 2010 | Comments (0)
Great news today! Today we signed the contract with I-Tech (High tech Business incubator at Tecnopolo Tiburtino in Rome). Our project was approved, 80 pages of explaination and development plan, for the innovative business model of Open Source platform (not easy...

FlyPort Kit @ Nomadis Lab (Milan University Bicocca)

Posted by openPicus | On: Jul 29 2010 | Comments (0)
We just shipped the starter kit (FlyPort+Nest) to NOMADIS Lab.The NOMADIS Lab was founded to develop research projects for the use of wireless network technologies, multimedia communications and location based services for the areas of mobility, propinquity and...

Source code, work in progress

Posted by openPicus | On: Jul 28 2010 | Comments (0)
The actual source code of the applications is quite heavy and difficult to manage. So we decided to go ahead and to be a little late with the release of the first application since we want to make it easy to understand and to modify for the user. OpenPicus applications...

openpicus.com online!

Posted by openPicus | On: Jul 26 2010 | Comments (0)
www.openpicus.com is online! OpenPicus project started with this blog, we had lot of help from the Community (thanks!) and this Blog will remain the place for the news, but we needed a website to collect all the infos about products and documentation. It’s...

Incisor Magazine talks about openPICUS

Posted by openPicus | On: Jul 24 2010 | Comments (0)
Thanks to Vince Holton, Editor in Chief of Incisor Magazine (very good online magazine specialized on RF short range, with more than 50.000 readers all over the world) that gaved space in July issue to our openPICUS project. http://www.incisor.tv Here’s the...

We officially are Microchip design parters, and more….

Posted by openPicus | On: Jul 20 2010 | Comments (0)
I just received the email from Microchip that agreed to give us the Microchip Design Partnership. It’s a very good news for us and for the openPicus project. We have regular contacts with Microchip and the head in USA are very interested in our project....

Flyport (aka picus WI-FI) final release!

Posted by openPicus | On: Jul 06 2010 | Comments (2)
This morning we mounted the new version of the picus wifi (now has definitive name FLYPORT). The difference with the first version are:1. PIC microchip 24F (was 64k flash, now is 256k) 2. PIC microchip 24F (was 44 pins, now is 64pin)3. Quarz (was 28Mhz and quite...