Paraimpu, Web of Things and openPICUS

Posted by openPicus | On: Nov 30 2011 | Comments (2)
Alongside the current trend and the Internet of Things concept, the Web of Things is a web evolution that consists of multimedia documents, files, links and people, which involves also the inclusion of “intelligent” objects and the everyday use: appliances,...

New NEST board for lighting and home automation applications

Posted by openPicus | On: Nov 28 2011 | Comments (3)
Finaly the requested NEST board useful for lighting and home automation applications will be ready on sale around mid Jan 2012. The NEST board can be used to turn on/off the loads or to dim the lights. Two inputs are also available to monitor the switches or other...

openPICUS website is now online!

Posted by openPicus | On: Nov 25 2011 | Comments (0)
We finally launched our new website – openPICUS. With a clean and updated look our website now hosts categories for all, for hobbistics, for distributors, for resellers and Universities. Stay tunned to our blog, for the release of IDE 2.1! Oh, feel free...

openPICUS new site – Forum offline

Posted by openPicus | On: Nov 23 2011 | Comments (0)
Do you remember when I told you to stay tunned on our blog because there will be some news?! One important news is for those who are registered on our Forum. Because of the new site, the Forum will be offline for a while – it will be online tomorrow, Thursday,...

Follow us on Social Network sites

Posted by openPicus | On: Nov 22 2011 | Comments (0)
Get in touch with openPICUS! Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter and Re-tweet our tweets! We are also on Linkedin! There is also our email for any info or suggestions. Do you want to watch our videos?! Go to Youtube!Oh, we are also on Google+! Follow us! If you...

Open Source Home Automation with FlyPort and Konnex Bus

Posted by openPicus | On: Nov 18 2011 | Comments (4)
A new application with FlyPort on home automation! This is about controlling the lights on bus konnex (presented at LinuxDay @Urbino), the multiroom music through to speakers connected to FlyPort with audio nest. You can also monitor the temperature and the...

openpicus Flyport, the protagonist at HackItaly

Posted by openPicus | On: Nov 16 2011 | Comments (0)
The openPICUS team had a very busy weekend. Gabriele, the co-fonder of openPICUS project, participated in HackItaly in Milan. What did he do there?! 12 hours of geeking out!!! Together with other developers created some new hacks or applications. Stefano from...

openPICUS @HackItaly again! Now we reward you!

Posted by openPicus | On: Nov 11 2011 | Comments (0)
Yes! After the success had with FlyPort at Hackitaly, last September, openpicus team returns with big surprises! HackItaly is the first event for hackers and developers all Past & API. In September, we presented the FlyPort to Arduino socket board. The board...

FlyPort Ethernet is born!

Posted by openPicus | On: Nov 08 2011 | Comments (0)
We are pleased to share the first pictures of the 6 prototypes of the new Flyport Ethernet. The module is mechanically identical to Flyport Wi-Fi, but it has a second connector (see picture below). Flyport Ethernet has the same Microchip PIC24F microcontroller...

Multiroom audio controlled wireless with FlyPort

Posted by openPicus | On: Nov 04 2011 | Comments (1)
Speakercraft MZC-88 is a powerful multi zone audio controller/amplifier capable of switching eight different audio sources on eight zones. Lawrence Watts has posted a very interesting project to control the Speakercraft device using the Flyport. The UART port...