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Donated Files to CHIPINO.com

10/19/2014

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I recently donated some of my shield files to the CHIPINO.com website. They are just files from my kickstarter projects that I was sharing anyway but this way the CHIPINO team or anybody looking for CHIPINO support shields can get them at one location. I helped create the CHIPINO with a group of friends because I wanted to see a Microchip PIC based option to easily use the various Arduino shields. From there CHIPINO has grown on its own.
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The desire to make CHIPINO completely open source and not just the current non-commercial version is still something I'm pushing for. It worked out great for Arduino though maybe not the Arduino creators. The Arduino kind of took on a life of it's own and the originators kind of lost control. That is the scary part for some of the CHIPINO team. 

Because CHIPINO was designed to work with a Programmer, and not a bootloader, it allows CHIPINO to use any 28 pin PIC16F or 18F device that operates at 5v. That offers a lot of options. This also made the CHIPINO automatically grow with all the advancements in the Microchip PIC world. Programming a CHIPINO from a PICkit 2 or PICkit 3 with MPLAB or MPLAB X or any third party IDE and any compiler that produces a .hex file for PICs is possible with the current setup and thus makes it universal for developers of all types. From hobbyist to professional.
It's one of the advantages I see to the CHIPINO has over Arduino which locks you into a crude IDE and only a couple chip options. But its clear that Arduino has taken over the electronics world so I'm clearly in the minority. But that is why I'd like to see the complete open source so others can take CHIPINO further. Time will tell. I'm also looking at changing my shield designs to completely open source as well (remove the non-commercial portion) as soon as the agreement I have with Howtronics.com expires. 


I have other designs to clear out of my lab which I'll be releasing open source over time. Each will probably be a project on my YouTube Channel. I have just so many designs I've worked on over the years and its time I just let them go for others to fully enjoy and possibly take them further than I ever could.
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Rando link
2/4/2015 05:07:27 am

Is the Chipino design also open source?

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Chuck Hellebuyck link
2/4/2015 05:58:43 am

All the files, PCB, Schematic and Assembly manual with parts list are listed at CHIPINO.com open source non-commercial. Since the PIC is blank and programmed by a programmer, then that is the complete design.

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Rando link
2/4/2015 06:11:18 am

I purchased (most) of your books, and am having great success with your Great Cow Basic IDE V2.0 on windows 8.1. Feel like I'm getting closer to really understanding what's going on, rather than just blindly importing Arduino libraries, and calling function that I have no idea what they do... The GCB IDE also seems to run great under wine and UBUNTU 14.04, I haven't quite figured out how to call pk2cmd from wine, but the linux version seems to work OK.

All a great package, and a wonderful learning opportunity. I work in Education and am planing to research more on how to get it more widely applied/accepted in an educational context.

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Chuck Hellebuyck link
2/4/2015 12:36:47 pm

Thanks for the feedback and for buying my books. And YES! you get it. Learning to program with Arduino is great but it hides a lot and as you described you don't always know what's going on in those libraries. Greta Cow Basic produces pure assembly code so you can see what is going on down to the fine detail. Its a great teaching tool and a great compiler.

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