Pinguino beta 9-05 is online !!

Hi guys,

Pinguino beta 9-05 is now available for download. You can download this release on Hackinglab website.
As usual, a lot of improvements were made in this beta, this is the changelog:
IDE :
- new icons set (regino and miniregino)
- themes management
- new functions (Save/Save as, getCodeSize, ...)
- config. file (file history, last window position and size)
- regression test shell for the example folder ( only for linux )
Libraries :
- stdlib.c (light printf implementation)
- serial.c (added Serial.printf function)
- pwm.c (added new functions PWM.setfrequency, PWM.setdutycycle and PWM.setpercentdutycycle)
- sound.c (functions Sound and Play)
- 1wire.c (1wire.reset, 1wire.readbit, 1wire.writebit, 1wire.readbyte and 1wire.writebyte)
- 18b20.c (DS18B20.Read, DS18B20.MatchRom, DS18B20.ReadRom, DS18B20.Configure, DS18B20.Find, DS18B20.GetFirst, DS18B20.GetNext and DS18B20.crc)
Examples :
- serial/serialprintf.pde
- serial/getkey.pde
- pwm/sound/mysound.pde + picture
- 1wire/18B20/temp18b20.pde + temp18b20.py + pictures

Many thanks to the developers of this release:
Regis ( Paintitblack ),
Marcus ( Annunakin ).

The beta testers helped a lot to find bugs:
Walter ( Walterleonardo ),
Rolf.

Remember that the pinguino road map is still online. You can write in this document everything you think useful for Pinguino. We use this paper to work on the next version.

The next version will be 'Pinguino32X'. We are currently working on this major release with PIC32 support.

Have fun, a nice Christmas ( too late !! ) and a happy new year !! ( too soon :-)
Jean-Pierre

Windows 7 Boops package

Javi from spain ( Boops ) tested Pinguino windows 7 64 bits.
He built a package with everything needed to install Pinguino with Windows 7 32 or 64 bits.
This package is available on his website:
www.roboops.es

This is the direct link to the Pinguino/windows 7 post.

Thanks for this test Boops.

Pinguino and Windows 7

After a lot of problem with windows 7, i decided to package a new version compatible with this OS.
This is the 9-03 version of Pinguino. What is new in this version ?

• some minor bugs were fixed ( locale and preprocessor )
• Windows version uses the original python uploader

A complete tutorial, on the tutorial website explain how to install properly pinguino on windows 7.

Pinguino beta 9-03 is in the download area.

Pinguino bootloader version 2.12

A new version of the bootloader is available. Some bugs were removed ( particulary the start delay wich was a little short for windows computer ) and the bootloader is now compatible with JAL with our hex file converter ( see the next post ).

download it here