A glance into an Open Source Hardware community

Posted by openPicus | On: May 30 2012 | Comments (0)
As you may know,  thanks to the post on our blog and our forum, we have recently launched an interesting and very focused survey. Perhaps, that’s why it has been highly appreciated and we‘ve received numerous answers (seventy to now) about the present and...

Geiger counter with Flyport

Posted by openPicus | On: May 28 2012 | Comments (6)
Marcus Vohburger created this very interesting device: a geiger counter powered by Flyport. Basically a geiger counter is a tool that measures radioactivity: when you add Flyport though it becomes interactive, connected to Internet and also able to send e-mail...

openPicus joins EnOcean alliance

Posted by openPicus | On: May 25 2012 | Comments (4)
Today I want to share an important step for openPicus as we joined the EnOcean alliance! The Enocean Alliance develops and promotes self-powered wireless monitoring and control systems for sustainable buildings and focuses on formalizing the interoperable...

Presenting Serial miniNest: Controlling serial devices over the Internet in a breeze

Posted by openPicus | On: May 21 2012 | Comments (6)
Here we are: a brand new expansion board for Flyport, the so-called Serial MiniNest, is coming in June! In the professional and industrial context, serial protocols (either RS485 or RS232) are still widely used as extremely robust and low-cost solutions. Many...

Flyport FTP Client: How to use it (Application Note)

Posted by openPicus | On: May 17 2012 | Comments (1)
Flyport has an important feature: the FTP Client onboard. The FTP Client allows the module to connect to a remote FTP server in order to download or upload data.For instance, this feature is extremely useful when you want to create dataloggers with Flyport. But...

Behind Buzzwords The Internet of Things is already here to improve our living – Interviewing IXD pioneer Leandro Agrò (aka @leeander)

Posted by openPicus | On: May 14 2012 | Comments (0)
Leandro Agrò is one of the pioneers of Interaction Design (IXD) in Italy. Among the best Italian visionaries - not only conscious of the technological shifts but also of  value changes ​​that global society is going through these days – Leandro played...

Android and the Real world – Announcing DOoIP a standardized, lightweight, JSON based protocol for controlling Flyport Modules by Android and More.

Posted by openPicus | On: May 10 2012 | Comments (9)
Introduction: the Android Open Accessory Development and limitations A few weeks ago we were wondering about the fact that Android, the Google operating system for Smartphones which is now a huge ecosystem with hundreds of thousands of daily activations,become...

How we are going to Redesign our Company and Products involving our Community.

Posted by openPicus | On: May 07 2012 | Comments (0)
As you all know, openPicus produces hardware modules and develops a software stack with the ambition to give you a simple and effective way to implement your more innovative automation, internet of things and domotics projects. Our products are made out of open...