Why to host a Hackathon

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 26 2012 | Comments (0)
Hello community! We are proud to present our first hackathon everì Will be called openPICUS connecThing hackathon since the very same objective of it, will be to connect things to the internet, in line with our mission, and doing it with the great ease that...

Creating with the Community: the Story of NXT2WiFi

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 21 2012 | Comments (0)
Today we want to share with you an amazing story made of passion, creativity and cooperation.  To tell this story, we asked the very same protagonist to do so.  He is Daniele Benedettelli, a funny geek from our community, that is known almost world-wide for...

OpenPicus to keynote at Web of Things Workshop 2012 – Interview with Dominique Guinard, event co-founder

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 18 2012 | Comments (0)
the Web of Things workshop logo As some of our community folks knows, we are off to Newcastle next week as Claudio Carnevali (@akaclaudio) will give an important keynote at the Web of Things workshop 2012 – event that we also co-sponsor.To introduce...

Interviews from the Community: Charalampos Doukas, researcher, writer and FlyPort Geek!

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 14 2012 | Comments (1)
Today, we proudly host on our blog, a talk with of of our greatest fans and maker from the community.Charalampos Doukas is an academic, editor, geek, book writer and more. An amazingly interesting mate that shows once again the treasure we can find in our community.If...

Let’s put some sparkles in the Evian

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 11 2012 | Comments (0)
“To celebrate the launch of the new service evianchezvous.com, Evian, BETC and Joshfire created a surprising and innovative connected object… “  that’s how the post from Joshfire goes. This is an interesting project indeed: This amazing prototype...

openPicus domoPORT: Demo for Innovative City event

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 08 2012 | Comments (1)
We are back from Nice, 2 days in that wonderful city, I love it! We’ve been there invited by EnOcean Alliance, which we are part now. First of all, it was a really important moment to get to know other companies and people into the Alliance and to present...

Hack a Ferrari California with Flyport

Posted by openPicus | On: Jun 04 2012 | Comments (0)
This is amazing. A Ferrari is amazing, but a Ferrari controlled by your iPhone is much more 2.0! Massimiliano Rivetti, an italian electronic engineer, hacked his Ferrari California adding an openPicus Flyport Wi-Fi module and a relay. The relay controls the...