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Cosino: the quick prototyping embedded system

May 14, 2014/ Comments 0 / in Press / by
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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Managing the Mega 2560 peripherals by MODBUS protocol

Apr 27, 2014/ Comments 0 / in Learning, Mega 2560, MODBUS / by
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

Apr 27, 2014/ Comments 0 / in Learning, Mega 2560 / by
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

Apr 15, 2014/ Comments 0 / in News / by
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!

Apr 4, 2014/ Comments 0 / in News / by
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

Mar 31, 2014/ Comments 0 / in Learning, Mega 2560 / by
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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Running a lightweight HTTP web server with PHP

Mar 31, 2014/ Comments 0 / in Debian, Learning / by
Running a lightweight HTTP web server with PHP

Debian OS have several web servers ready to install (Apache as the main reference) but if you wish a low memory footprint and an easy configuration task the best choice is definitely lighttpd! On Cosino, with a Debian OS pre installed, adding lighttpd with PHP support is quite an easy task. To install the WEB…

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Accessing the serial console

Mar 31, 2014/ Comments 0 / in Getting Start, Learning, Misc / by
Accessing the serial console

Here you can find some suggestions about how to get access to the Cosino’s serial console from an external host computer. Please note that to get access to the serial console you need a type-B miscro USB cable connected to the proper serial console port on your Cosino’s extension. GNU/Linux host On my Ubuntu 13.04…

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The MODBUS utils

Mar 31, 2014/ Comments 0 / in Learning, Misc, MODBUS / by
The MODBUS utils

Modbus is a serial communications protocol originally published by Modicon (now Schneider Electric) in 1979 for use with its programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Simple and robust, it has since become a de facto standard communication protocol, and it is now a commonly available means of connecting industrial electronic devices. The main reasons for the use…

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Cosino Mega 2560 – User Manual

Feb 14, 2014/ Comments 1 / in Getting Start, Learning, Mega 2560, User Manuals / by
Cosino Mega 2560 – User Manual

This product can be bought at our shop as: Cosino Mega 2560 Cosino Mega 2560 Developer KIT (special price!) Cosino Mega 2560 UHF RFID KIT (special price!) Cosino core module + Mega 2560 extension Overview The system supports any Arduino Mega 2560 shields which makes it suitable for extending all applications based on Mega 2560 and that…

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