Welcome to the Jalv2 & Jallib website!

JAL (Just Another Language, version 2) is an open source programming language built for programming PIC microcontrollers. If electronics is your thing, JAL is for you!

Check out our Tutorial Book for PIC microcontroller how-to's. With the use of our tutorials, you will learn to control the following:

Jallib is a set of open source JALv2 libraries to make things work. Here is a list of some of the library files included in the jallib package:

We are looking for more libs, so please share and contribute!
 

Though Jaluino Cuckoo doesn't even exist, though I don't even if it can exist, I thought it was important to design a dedicated logo.

I can't wait to see it on professional PCB :)

In last post, Jaluino Cuckoo has been briefly exposed, at least this is what I have i mind... The idea is to "parasite" the Arduino and put an small board with a Microchip PIC microcontroller, instead off Atmel chip. Just like brood parasite cuckoo birds squat in other species nests.

Now it's time to actually see how Jaluino Cuckoo could map Arduino pins. That is, we need to define which PIC's pins are mapped with Arduino's pins. This is an important step, as Atmel and Microchip chips are quite different, with different features, so a 100% mapping is hard to have, if not impossible. In the end, this is about making good compromises.

Cuckoo birds are brood parasites, they use other birds' nests to grow their hatchlings. Mother Cuckoo carefully selects existing nests and puts an egg, only one egg per nest. When Baby Cuckoo hatches, most of the time before other eggs, it just pushes them out the nest. This is its very first instinct, probably not the most rewarding one... Adoptive parents are now only focused on Baby Cuckoo and feed it graciously, with profusion.

This gave me an idea for a new Jaluino family board...

Jaluino PCBs, directly coming from India thanks to Sunish, will soon arrive at destination (my home), from where they'll soon be dispatched. This is the first batch order for Jaluino boards, very exciting :)

This order contains 15 units, 10 being already reserved (to be confirmed). If interested, please contact us on Jaluino Group: http://groups.google.com/group/jaluino

Some photos, more to come...

Multitasking and other fun on the PIC. Part 1

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Jaluino IDE (or Jaluinoide, that's its name), is an IDE for Jaluino. Main goals were:

• cross-platform IDE
• available plugin architecture
• easy to develop for me (that is, preferably in python)

There are already IDE available for Jalv2, notably PICShell (cross-platform, no plugins, maybe too much complex and not configurable enough) and Jaledit (not cross-platform, no plugins, very unfortunately as this is the most advanced Jal IDE available). So I had to give a try for yet another IDE that would fulfill Jaluino needs.

We'd like to introduce a new project named Jaluino. Jaluino is aimed to provide Arduino-like boards, PIC based and powered by jalv2 and jallib. Jaluino is thus a prototyping board on top of which you can plug several daughter boards ("shields"), the idea being to easily share hardware designs.

For now, we provide Jaluino Medium, a PIC 18F4550 based board. PCB, schematics, documentation, bootloaders, jaluino & jallib libraries, jalv2 compiler and samples can be downloaded from:

   http://code.google.com/p/jaluino/downloads/list

Jaluino is a project aimed to provide Arduino-like boards (some may even say a clone on certain points), based on modern PICs (18 serie), and powered by jalv2 and jallib.

This section is dedicated to Jaluino.  You'll find here everything related to this project, like schematics, PCB, tutorials, etc...

Stay tuned !

Jaluino Medium v1.3