panStamp - Wireless Arduino-compatible miniatures

[estratos]

Dear cocooners,

My name is Daniel Berenguer and I'm the founder of panStamp, an open source project designed to measure and control things wirelessly. The project consists of panStamps, small wireless boards programmable from the Arduino IDE, and a set of libraries and software tools used to configure wireless networks and hook them to the IP world.

http://www.panstamp.com

Lagarto is our open controller software. Following a client-server architecture, Lagarto links our wireless networks to any IP network, provides a web interface for viewing and controlling values, manages web-configurable events and pushes wireless M2M data to multiple cloud data services (Pachube, ThingSpeak and open.sen.se).

http://code.google.c...mp/wiki/lagarto

I recently posted a short review about the integration of panStamps, Lagarto and OpenRemote:
http://www.panstamp....ntrolspanstamps

And another post explaining how to create events from the web interface:
http://www.panstamp....worksandlagarto

As you can see, the project has required us to do an enormous work, including documentation and promotion, and I'm proud to say that most of the work is completed. However, there are still some things to do before going commercial. One of these remaining tasks is the creation of different base boards for panStamps which will include sensors and actuators for home automation applications. Because of this, we are running a campaign on indiegogo in order to get funds for the project:

http://igg.me/p/89807?a=531961

Thanks for having taken the time to read this long post

Best regards,

Daniel.

 

[BaduFamily]

Thanks for posting - ambitious work here. Reading your site now.

 

[estratos]

Thanks!

 

[midon]

<bump> Note that the Indiegogo campaign for panStamp ends on May 27th!

 

[estratos]

Thanks Mitch.

The project is going ahead even if the campaign on indiegogo didn't get too much attention. The first batch of panStamps and panSticks is being manufactured at this moment and we will also release new base boards containing sensors and actuators for very different purposes.

BR,

Daniel.

 

[BlueRoom]

Neat product.

What's the practical use of those 0-10V outputs on the "Output-board"? Can they be controlled simultaneously (I thought the HW PWM on the AVR had only two channels).

 

[estratos]

Sorry BlueRoom for not having answered your question before. I think that "automatic notification" was not enabled for the thread.
 
0-10V outputs on the output-board are made to control external equipment and drivers featuring this kind of input. There is a good number of bulb/halogent/fluorescent light drivers in the market but there are also fan control systems and even valves and HVAC equipment controllable from 0-10V signals. The idea is to use output-boards beyond Home Automation as well. Regarding the amoung of PWM oputputs on the Atmega, the Atmega328p provides 4 PWM outputs in fact.
 
Best regards,
 
Daniel.

 

[estratos]

We've recently released our first "official" version of Raspbian for the RaspberryPI. This custom version of the popular OS includes all the necessary resources to run our lagarto applications and OpenRemote without the hassle to install the Python/Java dependencies on this small Linux box. Just flash and play.
 
Link to our website
Link to our wiki
 
BTW, we are currently developing a panStamp shield for the Raspberry. We'll soon be able to connect to our wireless networks directly via serial without the need to use a panStick USB dongle.
 
Regards,
 
Daniel.
 

 

[estratos]

And here is our new panStamp shiend for RaspberryPI
http://www.panstamp.com/announcements/panstampshieldforraspberrypi