Well, 26 years today, counting from when the project was uploaded to Sourceforge as ‘EDA-Simple Service Gateway.‘ Doesn’t mean anything, of course. One more year in the service of the sand art [i.e., in the spirit of Buddhist sand mandalas — impermanent by nature]. Pretty happy with that!
Had the exact same thought earlier today. Where does the fun (and the driving force within) go?
När EU:s nya förpackningsförordning (PPWR) och kraven på utökat producentansvar (EPR) införs, slår reglerna hårt mot fel målgrupp. I stället för att bara träffa miljöbovar och storföretag tvingas…
This year I created a list beforehand of things to start with when I end the vacation. I also handled the inbox at regular intervals. Last year, the first week after the vacation, I used most of the week to go through +7000 emails and, after that, try to remember where I left off for another couple of days before I went on vacation.
Soon ending the 26th year of VSCP. Many years and the user base is lower than ever. Obviously, I can’t do much about that because I still believe in this project and enjoy going to the office every morning working on it. Buddhist monks are creating sand art and I believe this is a sand art project for me to do. The making of it is enough reward for me. Well, no one believes me when I say it, but I can assure you that it is true.
Later this fall I will turn 70 and have the understanding that I will not be able to continue with this forever. Getting older, you get slower, less creative and eventually die from it all. There is no way to stop age. But I still feel that I have some energy left and will try to finish some of the stuff that is still unfinished. That said, help/contributions are, of course, appreciated.
The following projects will be priorities in the coming twelve months.
VSCP Works — There is a lot to do there still. But in general, this is starting to be a very useful tool now. I will try to do releases more often from now on. Most of all, I will try to continue the documentation work for it.
VSCP Firmware – The new level II firmware replaces the old firmware in most cases. It is perfectly fine also for level I devices. The helper lib has its firmware counterpart now. The link protocol is available. Web-socket, a binary extension to the link protocol (used also for Multicast, UDP etc.) is almost ready. A blinky demo is the new standard getting started demo for VSCP devices. I will do as many as possible on different platforms. I hope others will do Blinky demos too.
vscp daemon – There will be a separate version of the daemon that use the tcp/ip interface and level I/II drivers as in the previous version. So one will use MQTT and one tcp/ip link protocol.
Hardware – A wifi to CAN4VSCP gateway is available. An Ethernet to CAN4VSCP based on ESP32 is here and a STM32 based here. And there are more…
Well there is more of course. Last I looked there was 267 projects in the repository.
Lastly, the thing I miss most of all is the discussions the VSCP community had in the past. It gave a lot of energy to me at least. It is still possible to discuss low and high here.
Have fun!
Time for some vacation here. I will be away from my office for nearly five weeks from now. Hopefully I will survive the lazy time so I can be back in the autumn and continue with this project. I hope so.
Have a great summer everyone!
/Ake
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Source: Oszi Waveform Analyzer
The image above shows something I call a CAN4VSCP trunk adapter. Soldering together a few of these for testing today. Handy to have on the lab bench if you have buses with different devices that need to be connected and disconnected. Here most devices can easily be connected to the bus.
Actually, I’m working on some demos for Wiznet. The WIZ-IP20 is a very nice device that can work as a TCP/IP server/client, UDP/multicast server/client and MQTT client and a bit more. You control it with serial commands. Simple as can be, and you can choose any processor you like.
Even better is that it contains the W55RP20 and that you can also load application code into it which completely replaces the serial-to-Ethernet functionality. Now it’s basically possible to create almost anything. My idea is to make a demo with NFC functionality and a slightly simpler demo that essentially just demonstrates some VSCP functionality. I also have two other boards from Wiznet that will be included.
So right now it’s a break from what I’m actually working on. But I’m expecting to be able to finish this after Midsummer so I can continue my other stuff after the summer vacations.
I’m doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food on the table and provide for my family is not unimportant. It may come as a … Continue reading The pressure →
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