Category: General

Andy released https://github.com/BlueAndi/vscp-bootloader/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Another year is moving fast to it’s closure. Christmas time is upon us and with it a few days are coming with calm family life for most of us. For me this year has been a great one, this despite the bad things happening in the world. Almost every hour awake this year has been used for VSCP work and a lot of things is in the pipe. Fun things. At least I think so.

I haven’t had to much contact with the VSCP community this year (if there still is one?) but I often think of you all. I have had the opportunity to get to know good people during the years of the project. Some just shortly, moving to other adventures and some for +15 years and more. It is great side effect of a project that is or rather has turned out to be a life project for me.

I hope for peace in the world. I hope for a world without a pandemic. A world where no one goes to sleep hungry. Or get abused. An I hope for the grit to carry on this work. The first four are hard to accomplish. We have to work together on them The last one is easy. I smile and have a good feeling in my body every morning when I enter the office around eight in the morning and I which I could do another hour every night near midnight when I usually leave to read a book and sleep for some hours. I just like this so much. Even if most of the time it is just (dull) work that needs to be done. Crazy people is the ones that do the same things over and over again. That can”t adopt to the world around them. And I probably is one of those after working on this for +20 years. But OK I can live with being a crazy fool that spent q full life on a useless project. Because I never thought it was. I often doubt, but always return to the faith in this work. Well it’s all just symptoms of crazy.

If you read this you probably have some interest in this project. From the bottom of my heart thank you for that. It means a lot.

I once read about a man in India that every day after work went up to the mountain side with chisel and a hammer in an effort to make a pass through the mountain. Everyone ignored and made fun of him. But after twentytwo years of hammering he finished the pass through the mountain. By that saving a full day travel time for the people of his village when they should go to the city. Grit. (Read more about this here).

Now, have a wonderful x-mas and a really good new year. You guys are the best!

/Ake

Our place taken from the door a few minutes ago.

Andy have rteleased VSCP arduino library v2.0.0

Andy have released VSCP framework v2.0.0

How open source is changing software development including at companies.

Source: Octoverse 2022: The state of open source | The State of the Octoverse

Espressif’s ESP-ZeroCode Modules have been created to simplify the building of Matter-compatible, smart-home devices.

Source: Announcing ESP-ZeroCode Modules for Building Matter-Compatible, Smart-Home Devices with Ease | Espressif Systems

Source: Stacey on IoT | More Matter

So finally the new cards arrive from jlcpcb, the cards for the HAN P1 BLE interface. First test is to see if the fit in the box I selected. It is a check on that one. One of the mounting holes is a bit of but not to bad to be a show stopper.

The construction is open a free of course. As usual and always. After all I have made it my life to give away everything for free.

In a perfect world I would have entered the soldering desk to mount a card and test it out, but I am deep into BLE mesh at the moment. It is still VSCP of course. BLE mesh is just a carrier. That is fun to. I promise.

But nest week I hope I will have a chance to put this card to the test. I will keep you guys updated.

Source: Bluetooth Mesh: The Ultimate Guide

I follow a seminar about Matter and like it a lot. A product needs to go through a certification process. The cost is high as always. Not so fun anymore.

The question is if it is worth the effort to build and sell Matter products that are not certified?