Hybernation mode, works!

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 30 2011 | Comments (0)
This is a great news for Flyport. It can be really integrated into battery powered applications! Let’s start from the beginning. In this month we started testing to switch Off and On the integrated Microchip Wi-Fi transceiver. Using the standard Microchip...

Find a job opportunity with openPICUS

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 29 2011 | Comments (2)
We just received this news from France: openPICUS has a new parner there, Giga-Concept Company, that intends to actively promote our platform to the market, especially in automotive applications where Giga-Concept has lot of experience. Promoting openPICUS...

DIY web server with OpenPicus FlyPort 2/2

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 27 2011 | Comments (2)
The success of FlyPort WiFi module is due to the intuitive and easy programming essential software development environment thanks to the availability of APIs and functions already written and ready to be referenced in your code . The only bad thing is that you...

Flyport on Thingspeak.com

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 24 2011 | Comments (0)
Behind openpicusandy (forum user) reporting, Stefano Saccucci (stefacc nick on the forum) has interfaced the Flyport with www.thingspeak.com. Now Flyport, connected with a temperature and humidity sensor SHT75 Sensirion constantly sends data on temperature and...

OpenPicus Flyport, Review (1/2)

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 22 2011 | Comments (0)
FlyPort represents the evolution for the web server implemented on a PIC microcontroller based on the TCP/IP protocol stack available on Microchip as a framework for managing and monitoring remotely via Ethernet protocol. With FlyPort we have done more, we have...

2 free Flyport starterkit for the new Bucharest hackerspace

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 20 2011 | Comments (0)
openPICUS team is happy to announce a new partnership with harkopen.com, the Romanian open hardware community. 2 Flyport free starter kits have been shipped to Bucharest where a new hackerspace is near to be opened: http://inventeaza.ro/ The name inventeaza...

openPICUS team just released the RTC library for Flyport

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 17 2011 | Comments (0)
Now it is possible to use the integrated Real time clock on Flyport (have you noticed the second 32.768Khz quarz on module?) to have a time/date/day of the week info. Not only!! The real time clock library allows also to set ALARMS events. From a minimum of 0,5...

Claudio Carnevali from OpenPicus core team & Council Interview

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 15 2011 | Comments (0)
Council is a group of professionals with different ideas and opinions that sometimes differ and, probably, clash. They want to host the full range of opinions on what will be a small avalanche of disruptive innovations. Council interviewed Claudio Carnevali. The...

Flyport flies on EECatalog

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 13 2011 | Comments (0)
Our intelligent module, FlyPort is on EE Catalog too! EE Catalog is part of Extension Media team. Extension Media produced more than one hundred custom magazines, newsletters, websites, events and market research studies for a variety of different industries....

Flyport for stress monitoring

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 10 2011 | Comments (0)
The University of Alabama in USA, one of the first who joined the openPICUS Campus Program, has under development an interesting application on Flyport Wi-Fi module. They are using the Ant+ technology from Sony Ericsson, EEG and EKG to collect, to the S.m.a.r.t....