Pinguino Eagle

Benoit Espinola designed an eagle version of the simplified 2550.

It will be available soon for download.

JAL with Pinguino

I discovered JAL and tried to make it usable with Pinguino bootloader. It's done !!
How to do this ?

Upgrade your pinguino with bootloader 2.12
Create your program and compile it with JAL ( i use piklab to do this ),
Convert your program with our jal2pinguino converter: ./jal2pinguino.py jalprog.hex pingprog.hex
Upload your program with VascoBoot.py

Add the option -loader18 8224 -no-fuse to the JAL command line.

links:
pinguino bootloader 2.12
JAL
JALLIB and JALLIB group
jal2pinguino converter written with python
vascoboot uploader written with python

The next Pinguino version will both support Arduino langage and JAL.

Thanks to Vasile, Sébastien Lelong and Albert Faber from the jallib group.

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

FONERA, PINGUINO and IPHONE

Yet another walter application. Pinguino is connected to the fonera with the serial port. The Fonera run Lighttpd web server with LUA CGI-BIN. The Iphone is connected to the Fonera web server and drive Fonera GPIO and Pinguino.
Thanks for the video Walter, you did a great job.......

Virtual Pinguino

Walter from madrid works on a virtual pinguino model with ISIS on windows.
The bootloader works and Pinguino IDE can recognize the module as a real board. There is only a problem of speed when trying to download the code.
We will try to fix this.

Good idea and good job.......

Pinguino on 18F2455/18F4455

Finally, i tested Pinguino on 18F2455 and 4455. These chips offer the same functions but less memory capacity.
Everything is OK with bootloader V2, but i programmed the chips with 18F4550 checked. If i check 18F4455 on my programer software, nothing works !!
I use a home made JDM programer and IC-PROG with wine.
Maybe it will be useful for other users.........

Pinguino beta 7

Pinguino beta 7 is now available for Linux, Windows and MAC OSX.
You can download it here.

Bootloader V2 upgraded

Vasile ( FreeJALduino project ) sent me an email to report a problem. With bootloader alpha V2, when Pinguino is external powered, the program didn't start.
This bug is corrected in bootloader4550V2.hex

Thanks for submitting this bug.

FreeJALduino works !!

Vasi made FreeJALduino, a 18F2550 board exactly like an arduino ( see this post ).
I am happy to know that the first test works with a modified version of Pinguino.
I plan to integrate a FreeJALduino directive in the next version of pinguino.
Congratulations for this nice job Vasi.



Vasi website

Tiny 4550 on a proto-board

This is the last design of tiny pinguino 4550 on a proto-board.

It was drawn with Inkscape:



You must cut the tracks marked with a red point.
I used this home made tool to do this:



Now you can sold components and wires. The 18F4550 must be mounted on a suport.

This version offers the same functionalities as the PCB version.


The booloader V2 must be used with this design.

Last upgrade 29/09/2009: Cutting points were modified, thanks to André.