Release Beta 3.1 for MAC OS X

The Pinguino beta 3.1 is available for MAC OS X and Linux.

A bug was corrected on analogRead and Serial in this release.

download this latest release on www.hackinglab.org/pinguino/download/

Pinguino beta 3 Windows

How to install Pinguino on Windows:

- download and install Python 2.5.2
- download and install wxpython 2.8
- download and install pyusb
- download and install libusb-win32

sometimes, libusb need to be installed again to work fine.

download the Microchip modified driver on hackinglab
Extract the driver in a new folder.
Connect your pinguino and when windows ask for a driver, select the driver folder.

Download Pinguino Last Release

extract pinguino in a new folder, go to the folder and right click on Pinguino betaX.py
then click on launch with and select python

Variables initialisation in Pinguino

/* DEPRECATED */
/* modified in beta 5 */

Initialisation of variables must be done in the setup() loop instead of head of the program.

In Pinguino you must do this:

int led1;

void setup()
{
led1=1;
}

Pinguino do not accept

int led1=1;


We are trying to fix this bug......................

Pinguino beta 3 !!

Pinguino beta 3 is available for Linux and MAC OS X.

Changes in this version:

- support of USB ( see /examples/usb/ )
- better compatibility with arduino for digitalWrite, digitalRead and pinMode

USBmon is a USB terminal made for test with Pinguino. It is available separatly on www.hackinglab.org/pinguino/download/
USBmon need python USB ( pyusb ).

Pinguino on MAC OS X

Pinguino IDE is based on Python 2.5. This is the step by step procedure to work with it:

- download and install Python 2.5.2 ( http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.2/ )
- download and install WxPython 2.8 ( sourceforge )
- download and install libusb binaries ( MAC OS X 10.4 , MAC OS X 10.5 )


- download Pinguino Last Release

Go to pinguino folder and right click on pinguinobetaX.py, open with python launcher 2.5.2.

Pinguino logo !!

Pinguino has now his own logo :-)
Thanks France for this great TUX.................

Unstable Pinguino beta 2 OSX available

The unstable beta 2 is available with analog functions !!

Beta 3 will be soon available with USB implementation. A python script will be used as an OSC server to insure communication with pure data ord processing.

www.hackinglab.org/pinguino/

Unstable Pinguino beta 2 Linux is available

This is the changelog of Pinguino beta 2:

Pinguino (beta 2) 2008/09/16

- implementation of analogRead instruction
- corrected a bug in Serial.print(__,DEC)

For the moment it is an unstable version, only for Linux.
You can download it on
www.hackinglab.org/pinguino/

Hacking the Wowee chimp with Pinguino

France Cadet and me are invited at the tweak festival in Ireland this week. We will make a workshop to hack some robots. This is the first tests of Pinguino in the hacking world !!
This is a picture of pinguino with the chimp and the EEEPC. It seems that pinguino can drive a Wowee chimp !!

Pinguino beta 1 OSX is available !!

Great job !! Guillaume STAGNARO made an OSX version of Pinguino.
It can be downloaded on:
www.hackinglab.org/pinguino/

You must install libusb to communicate with the board.

Have fun !!