Disclaimer, warnings, caution

Don't do this, don't read this, close this page, because what is following will break your Arduino board, it will disintegrate it, it won't work anymore, you'll just have to throw it away. Unusable. This is extreme Arduino, this is Forbidden Arduino. Do it at your own risk, if you completely and undoubtedly know what you're doing, because I'm not responsible in anyway for anything that would occur before, while and after, for decades and decades. And much more.

This is not for the faint of heart.

You've been warned.

Twice.

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.

Last time, I built Jaluino v1.0, the very first version of Jaluino. Jaluino is an Arduino-like board (some even say a clone), based on a Microchip PIC 18F4550, and powered by jalv2 and jallib. This first version was very encouraging, but several points had to be improved. Quite a lot of has been discussed, now has come the next version: Jaluino v1.1

Big time.

Thanks to Richard's last contribution, we now have a nice schematics for the first version of Jaluino board, and very clean and easy to build PCB.

Jaluino is aimed to be a clone of Arduino, but PIC-based, and powered by jalv2 & jallib. The purpose is to share a common hardware configuration, on top of which one can add different features and capabilities, thanks to shields (daughter boards). Ala Arduino...