openPICUS board is very simple board with great idea, connect sensor/actuator on one end & wireless modules on other end of PIC micro controller.
One of the design will have WiFi, while other will have Bluetooth as wireless module on openPICUS board. To make things simple to implement, openPICUS team have used 2 layer circuit design.
Board contains Microchip PIC24F 16 bit chip set for processing. Sensors such as temperature, accelerometer, flow detector can be interfaced to PIC. The readings of firmware can be done using wireless link. The firmware should directly download from serial port.
PIC24F has I2C & SPI interface, which can be used to for LCD display. PIC24F has 4 Analog Inputs with 10 bit A/D, 5 Digital Inputs (3 can be used as Interrupt) & 5 Digital Outputs (3 can be used for PWM) which is fair set of IO to interface desired sensors & actuators.
Pros:
- Simple design with good IO capability
- Wireless support
