Running OpenWRT on Cosino

Running OpenWRT on Cosino

OpenWRT is a powerful embedded distribution which fits well into Cosino’s on board NAND. Getting the code To install it into our Cosino’s based board we need to download on our host PC the OpenWRT source code that you can find on our GitHub repositories and can be downloaded by using the command below:

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Managing the thermocouple MAX31855

Managing the thermocouple MAX31855

This product can be bought at our shop as: Thermocouple MAX31855 Thermocouples are a common form of temperature measurement devices that are widely used in industrial applications. Achieving high system accuracy from thermocouple measurements can be difficult because there are many sources of error within a given system. Using an integrated analog front-end + ADC…

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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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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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