Bless.
Came across the Pinguino, and their new version uses the powerful 80Mhz PIC32MX440F256H microcontroller, with their own arduino compatible IDE, as well as C and the usual compatibility eistent for the PIC uC's.
Im actually amazed at it after researching some projects, and will definitely have to give it a try soon.
Let me now if anyone has experiences with it, or even the PIC version ChipKIT, which is also arduino pseudo compatible
i bought the "slim" version without shield form factir.pinguino ide does not work. how can i upload an arduino sketch to pinguino?
Well the slim version doesnt mean owt to me...You would have to be more specific...
A link ?! What chip you using ?!? A schematic if it is a self made/DIY board ?!?
I'm talking about this:
Today Pinguino IDE does not even start... i have two pinguino executables and no pinguino.py files, if I just unpack the executable-installer. But I just have one pinguino.exe executable if I properly install the package. But none of the three exes launch any IDE upon double click.
In the pinguino forum theres all the links u need, but theres a full tutorial on installing on different OS.
http://wiki.pinguino.cc/index.php/Main_Page
and
http://wiki.pinguino.cc/index.php/IDE.
But for help on it you should probably go to the Pinguino Forum...
http://pinguino.cc/ as it will be beneficial to the forum and others you do the questions to your issues there, for the future !!
i eventually figured out how to program the "pinguino32 micro": just like all others pinguino, it must be put in uploader mode by pressing the user button before connection, or by pressing user+reset button after connection.
it's very interesing to talk abou it here, because ths board is 100% sw compatible with arduino C, but it costs just 15$ and it has sd card reader included! (although I don't know yet if it directly supports sketch written for sd card shield).
How can it be 100% software compatible when it has a totally different processor?
And it is advertised as selling at 29.90€
At current exchange rates that is $USD 37.78.
This isn't adding up. It simply can't be true that it is totally software compatible, and the price you quoted is just wrong.
http://wiki.pinguino.cc/index.php/Compatibility#Compatibility_Pinguino_vs._Arduino
Compatibilty has been tested and is almost 100%.
Scroll down.
Unsupported Arduino Standard and Contributed Libraries
? Firmata - for communicating with applications on the computer using a standard serial protocol.
? SoftwareSerial (NewSoftSerial) - for serial communication on any digital pins (Pinguino32 gives you up to 9 serial channels)
? Matrix - Basic LED Matrix display manipulation library
? Sprite - Basic image sprite manipulation library for use in animations with an LED matrix
? Messenger - for processing text-based messages from the computer
? PS2Keyboard - read characters from a PS2 keyboard.
? Simple Message System - send messages between Arduino and the computer
? SSerial2Mobile - send text messages or emails using a cell phone (via AT commands over software serial)
? Webduino - extensible web server library (for use with the Arduino Ethernet Shield)
? X10 - Sending X10 signals over AC power lines
? SerialControl - Remote control other Arduinos over a serial connection
? Capacitive Sensing - turn two or more pins into capacitive sensors
? LedControl - for controlling LED matrices or seven-segment displays with a MAX7221 or MAX7219.
? LedControl - an alternative to the Matrix library for driving multiple LEDs with Maxim chips.
? LedDisplay - control of a HCMS-29xx scrolling LED display.
? Metro - help you time actions at regular intervals (supported in Interrupt library)
? MsTimer2 - uses the timer 2 interrupt to trigger an action every N milliseconds (supported in Interrupt library)
Personally I don't think this is relevant to this forum. It is like when I once went to a Mac Users Group and someone started demonstrating a Commodore 64. Interesting though it may have been, I went there to see Mac products, not Commodore ones.
You're looking at the big version compatible with shields, but I was talking about this:
http://www.robot-italy.com/product_info.php?products_id=2287
And by "100% SW compatible" I meant it supports Arduino C, not Arduino Libraries: of course HW is different, hence low-level programming cannot be compatible.
Nick Gammon is correct, Adafruit have them from for $35, $31.46 on offer at the moment.
Adafruit also agree with him on the non-Arduino nature of this product.
"it isn't an Arduino, isn't supported by the Arduino team or forums, and doesn't work with the Arduino IDE" --Adafruit