Cosino’s u-boot bootloader

Cosino’s u-boot bootloader

If you need to recompile Cosino’s u-boot bootloader you have to clone u-boot repository on our GitHub page. You can use command:

then setup your cross compiler (on my Ubuntu I used package gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi):

At this point you can cross compile the bootloader by using:

This command configures u-boot in order to…

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CAEN RFID & HCE Engineering Partnership

CAEN RFID & HCE Engineering Partnership

CAEN RFID and HCE Engineering present Cosino Mega 2560 UHF RFID KIT, the powerful combination of GNU/Linux Embedded, Arduino-Compatible and UHF RFID technologies. CAEN RFID and HCE Engineering partnered on the development of a full featured development kit for embedded UHF RFID application. Cosino is a unique tool that combines the functionalities of a low…

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The Cosino Project is looking for resellers & partners

The Cosino Project is looking for resellers & partners

The Cosino Community is growing!!! If you trust in the Cosino Project and you would like to be part of the internationalization process this is the right moment; HCE Engineering, the producer of Cosino Boards, is looking for resellers & partners for the following areas: Europe, North America, South America, Russia, China, India, Japan and Australia. Feel free to…

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Cosino: the quick prototyping embedded system

Cosino: the quick prototyping embedded system

Cosino is a real hardware gym for quick prototyping. One unique tool that combines the functionalities of a mini-computer with those of a professional automation system. All in one product: with its countless peripherals it’s capable of handling any type of invention. The Cosino Project is a comprehensive lineup of CPUs boards, carrier boards (named…

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Getting access to Mega 2560 serial port from Linux serial console

Getting access to Mega 2560 serial port from Linux serial console

If you have a ready-to-run Arduino Mega 2560 application that is managed by an external program running on a PC and you wish using it on Cosino’s Mega 2560 extension you may wish get access to the standard Arduino serial port… of course you can do it by getting access to Cosino’s /dev/ttyS3 device but,…

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Managing the Mega 2560 peripherals by MODBUS protocol

Managing the Mega 2560 peripherals by MODBUS protocol

As shown in this article you can interact with the Mega 2560 CPU on your Cosino Mega 2560 board by using a control terminal with several text commands, however, as stated at the end of the article, this behaviour in quite inefficient so a better way must be used for production environment! A possible solution…

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Mega 2560 control terminal

Mega 2560 control terminal

In most cases having a simple and quick access to the system GPIOs, ADCs and other ports is useful, here I’m going to show to you how to implement a simple control terminal for the on-board CPU of Cosino’s Mega 2560 extension. In this example I’m going to use simple commands from the command line as…

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Quick Prototyping Workshop with Linux board

Quick Prototyping Workshop with Linux board

Ready, set, GO! Are you ready to sign up to the first workshop dedicated to Cosino Mega 2560 Board? Next May 11th at Multiverso site (Florence – Italy) you can follow a complete course of quick prototyping using a GNU/Linux embedded system designed to industrial and control automation applications. Don’t miss this event! See Multiverso site for further…

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Cosino boards are officially into kernel 3.14!

Cosino boards are officially into kernel 3.14!

We are pleasured to announce that new Linux release 3.14 has been released and Cosino Mega 2560 board is now officially supported since commit id 470e891b06b2971037b38020cb4b9e7e496500e6 as shown below:

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Building Mega 2560 applications from the command line

Building Mega 2560 applications from the command line

Most of Arduino programmers well know the Arduino's GUI where they usually build their applications, but exists another way to build Arduino applications: directly from the command line with little help from other tools! Let's see how!  Note: Programmers whose love managing their programs from the command line may enjoy this little tutorial :-] First…

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