Category: General

Raspberry Pi has designed its own microcontroller (MCU), the RP2040, and launched a new $4 board based on the new MCU, the Raspberry Pi Pico, programmable

Source: Raspberry Pi designs its own MCU along with $4 board – Embedded.com

The Raspberry Pi Pico is an entirely new type of microcontroller from Raspberry Pi. Small, cheap and flexible – it’s great for learning to code with MicroPython! Whether you’re looking to learn about the MicroPython programming language, take your first steps in physical computing or want to build a hardware project, the Raspberry Pi Pico – and its amazing community – will support you every step of the way. The Pico isn’t designed to replace the Raspberry Pi, which is a different class of device known as a single-board computer. Whereas you might use your Raspberry Pi to play games, write stories and browse the web, your Raspberry Pi Pico is designed for physical computing projects where it can control familiar components such as LEDs, buttons, sensors, motors and even other microcontrollers. The Pico can be quickly and easily programmed

Source: Raspberry Pi Pico– The Pi Hut

Next version – 15.0.0

The daemon have all functionality in place and is pretty stable. Drivers still needs some work. Today all Level I drivers are working, the logger, tcp/ip, automation and socketcan is in place for Level II.

Hopefully there will be a beta in February. Want websocket support in driver form before I release it.

HLO – High Level Object

HLO is a way to communicate with a device or any other VSCP aware “thingi” using high level commands (link). It’s been in the specification for a while but I never did a test implemention of it. One though has been to use HLO to be able to configure drivers (L2). I have done a test of this for the level II logger driver now that works over MQTT. Tcp/ip, websockets, udp and rest is possible to of course. It works as expected and I will make this available for all drivers.

VSCP Works +

VSCP Works is still not in a state in which it can be released. Mainly this is because I skipped Electron and restarted the development from scratch using qt. This work still has a long way to go. But eventually…

Sparkplug

Sparkplug (link, link) is the first open source protocol aside of VSCP that have addressed the issue of interoperability. I have been waiting twenty years for that. But Sparkplug may be the thing. I am glad to see it because this is the area that needs most attention in the IoT and IIoT arena as I see it and has always been. Take a look.

The list

Removed the Google based discussion list. With the low traffic in it is served no use. Use GitHub for discussions instead. Most people send me direct mails, and that is OK, but it is much better to use the resources on GitHub so I just need to answer a question ones and so other people can jump in to the discussions as well.

Development (personal reflection)

My development efforts has been slow and it’s been hard work in the beginning of this year. Is it worth it pops up from time to time and more so this year. I am never able to answer that question. Or rather I dare not do so. What I know is that there is many joyful moments in this development process. Moments of gold. But of course, as in any process of this size, most of the development process is just daily hard, lonely and tedious work. Striving in a direction targeted against some virtual “ready” marker. Then reaching it and starting it all over again.

It’s been a bit more speed in the development process lately, so don’t mark this project as (fully) dead yet.

Have fun!
/Ake

There’s a lot to love in #IoT but this made me smile pic.twitter.com/B3BiEbIgJp

— Jeremy Cowan (@jcIoTnow) January 13, 2021

To my my big surprise I received an unexpected package today. Thank you #github

Source: Open-source VSCP IoT/M2M automation framework supports Arduino, Raspberry Pi

The movie: https://photos.app.goo.gl/eKTJ5rvZE6axbwAv5

I am no winter lover. But mornings like this morning is not bad. I must at least admit that. A decimeter of snow falls during the night and is added to the snow already on the ground. Light, cold, white, snow. Snow that make that special sound when you walk on it. The world becomes very silent when there is new snow everywhere. You are in the void. The feeling is that the world is a silented music studio. I’m the only one awake. It’s still dark. It’s just nice to be alive.

I give the birds (and the squirrels) some food and move away some snow from the car and the ground. After that I am ready start my day. Coffee. Backups (it’s is Friday). My office. My “work”. I love it all.

With this post I just want to wish everyone following the VSCP developers blog a nice time during xmas and during the new year, despite the bad times we live in. I wish you to have some nice days with your dear ones during the period. Perhaps a good book, an old movie, some of your favorite food can find it’s way to you. I know they all will here. There is still a lot to be thankful for.

Have fun and take care everyone.

Part creative code, part artisanal Pi enclosure, part clock.

Source: Concrete Physics Clock | Hackaday.io

Nice work!

Designed for simple and secure connectivity applications, Espressif has introduced ESP32-C3. ESP32-C3 is a cost-effective, RISC-V-based MCU with Wi-Fi and Bluet

Source: RISC-V MCU Blends Wi-Fi and BLE Connectivity | Circuit Cellar

RISC-V, the open standard for chip instructions, is leading to some impressive technical innovation, one of its creators says.

Source: RISC-V, the Linux of the chip world, is starting to produce technological breakthroughs | ZDNet