Pinguino is an arduino like environment base on Microchip PIC chips. It's first goal is for educational purpose but it became quickly a set of tools for various projects.
3 configurations are currently updated.
On all the version, instead of digital and analog pins, somme pins are dedicated to special functions:
- Traditional Pinguino is built around a 18F2550 chip. On this board you can use 18 digital I/O shared with 5 analog inputs. This board have integrated SMD resistors on all the pins.
- Simplified Pinguino is the same design but without SMD resistors on pins. It is simplest to build and some design are built on a bread board.
- Tiny Pinguino 18F4550 is our last design. Built around a 18F4550 chips it offer 29 digital I/O shared with 8 analog inputs.
- 2 fast PWM outputs ( 3000 Hz )
- Serial input output up to 57600 bauds
- USB native
- eeprom write and read
- user access to interrupt
Pinguino is still in development and a lot of new features are currently under test:
- flash read and flash write
- peripheral libraries ( 1Wire, LCD ..... )
Pinguino will be ported on PIC32 soon, our test card with a PIC32MX460F512L will offer a lot of new features:
- 78 I/O
- USB Host
- USB device
- 80 Mips