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To mount the EM1000 on your own PCB, Digikey carries the mating connectors:

A32955-ND and A32963-ND

I had trouble finding them :(

- Mike

Heya,

Just a quick not to let y'all know that FD docs are now officially available:

http://docs.tibbo.com/taiko/object_fd...

Enjoy!

I/O Ninja is a GUI front-end for performing and monitoring arbitrary I/O operations.

Imagine a terminal emulation program, like HyperTerminal or a telnet client.

Allow it to send and receive arbitrary binary data in HEX or TEXT form.

Pour in ultimate I/O flexibility, allowing it to work with any underlying transport, be it a serial port, TCP/UDP in client or server modes, named pipe or anything else.

Add the monitoring capabilities of a network sniffer or a serial monitor.

Now sprinkle a dash of style and common sense, and you've got an elegant and powerful tool for debugging almost any communication scenario you can throw at it. I/O Ninja.

I/O Ninja is shareware, and you're very welcome to download and try it freely! Tell us what you think about it!



For more information on this product, please visit the I/O Ninja Homepage.

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to let you know our in-house Tibbo BASIC wizards have just posted a really big demo project, implementing a full Time and Attendance terminal. Some cool features on the demo: HTTP access, works with EM1000-TEV, full Access Log implementation.

The project is really big. The code is well commented. I think it's a really cool addition to our tools, because you can either use it as an educational tool (to see how objects are used and learn some coding techniques) OR you can just take it and use it as a basis for your own commercial product!

That's right -- you can use this code freely (and any code our guys post on the Tibbo website) for your own commercial products, without releasing it back as open source. Just take it, customize it, and make something cool.

The project does have some kinks still (does not work under Firefox! We're working on that one..) but it is a very useful resource.

Have fun with it, and tell me what you think!

Hi guys,

We've got a new product out, EM1000-TEV. It's a complete kit built around the EM1000, with an integrated keypad, LCD, 2 serial input boards, 2 I/O board and optional WiFi.

In short, it's got everything you need to create your own _complete_ terminal, based on Tibbo-BASIC, really fast. I personally think it's a very cool device -- it's like RAD (rapid application development) but for an actual hardware device.

We've issued an official press release, and it has a bit more information on this. I'm including it below.

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TIBBO ANNOUNCES NEW EM1000-TEV DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM FOR ITS EM1000 BASIC-PROGRAMMABLE MODULE

Taipei, Taiwan. 11 June, 2008.

The EM1000-TEV is a sophisticated development platform, consisting of a motherboard with an EM1000 module and an optional WA1000 Wi-Fi module, as well as a number of additional boards. These boards include an LCD board, keypad board, and four interface boards. Two of the interface boards feature universal RS232/422/485 ports, while the remaining two boards each have three relays and three optically isolated inputs. Relays can be used to switch external loads, while isolated inputs can be connected to various sensors. Additionally, these inputs can be used to connect standard Wiegand or clock/data card readers.

The hardware of the EM1000-TEV is fully supported by a sophisticated Tibbo BASIC demo application that implements a data collection terminal with onscreen setup menus, remote browser-based setup, an event log stored on the EM1000’s flash disk, and many other important facilities. The source code for this demo application is posted on the Tibbo website and can be used freely by our customers.

“Our BASIC-programmable modules, such as the EM1000 device, are quickly gaining traction among developers”, said Dmitry Slepov, the Managing Director and one of the founders of Tibbo Technology. “The release of our new EM1000-TEV development system demonstrates that the EM1000 can be successfully used in a wide range of devices such as data collection terminals, control panels, and automation equipment. Since the new development system contains all hardware facilities typically required in a data collection or automation device, software developers can start working on their new applications immediately, without waiting for the new product’s hardware to be ready. Additionally, the availability of a comprehensive demo application will further shorten the product development cycle, by allowing Tibbo customers to freely reuse significant portions of the source code in their projects.”

About Tibbo

Located in Taipei, Taiwan, Tibbo Technology Inc. brings simplicity to the embedded world defined by the enormous complexity of operating systems, programming languages, and design tools. Tibbo’s hardware, Tibbo-BASIC programming language with its Tibbo IDE software, and now the AggreGate system offer a complete rapid development solution for data collection, automation, security, and monitoring devices and systems.

More information on Tibbo BASIC-programmable devices and software can be found at www.tibbo.com/taiko.

EM1000-TEV documentation can be found at http://docs.tibbo.com/em1000-tev.htm

Hi all!

I'm pleased to inform you that our very own DS1000 has just received IP68 certification!

IP68 is the highest grade of protection from intrusion of foreign objects, dust and water. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Code.

In simple terms, this means that when you use the secondary cover for the DS1000, it is guaranteed and certified to be waterproof, and can actually operate while immersed in water! It has been tested for immersion of 1.5 meters, and remained fully water-tight.

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I have spent some time with your TIDE and EM1000 products. I have been an embedded developer my whole carrier, and have had a chance to play with many systems, module and processors and compilers.
it is my opinion that you guys have created the best platform hardware and software that i have had a chance to play with!!! I just wanted to start out by saying that TIBBO did an awesome job!

Unfortunately, the speed of the EM1000 is to slow for my everyday projects. Now that the WA1000 came out and the throughput is ~90kbps, it too is also to slow for my projects. I do want to make a point to anyone reading this that these products are fast and quite capable for most users, do not take my comments to mean that these products are slow. i am one of the select groups of people that need more speed for their applications. i would highly recommend Tibbo's products to anyone.

I can see by how you guys are doing things that you are really going to shine as a company to the embedded world. now that you have Wi-Fi ability things should really take off for you.

My only suggestion is once the smoke clears, and you start looking for other things to do, please consider a new platform to where the speed is considerably faster than the current EM1000. and also a new TIDE that is for C code and not basic. i fully beleive that if you implement these features you should have no problem being a major competitor over many of the other markets like Netburner, Zilog and rabbit. to name a few.

Keep up the great work! it's been fun playing with the EM1000 buti must leave it an go back to my old ARM platform as i need the speed. If you ever come out with a faster system please let me know and i will be more than happy to jump back in.

Hi everybody,

I just wanted to make a couple of points about us (Tibbo guys) posting here:

1) None of us are native English speakers, and we have varying levels of proficiency in the language. We've made a decision to all pitch in and say what we have, and some of our English is not perfect.

We think it's better to say what we each personally think, and be transparent, than to use "perfect" English in this forum.

Which leads me to...

2) This forum is informal. Just in case this has to be spelled out: None of the positions and statements made here are Tibbo's formal policy or position, unless explicitly marked so (as "Official Reponse" in the system).

We're just here as people, because we care about Tibbo customers and we care about what we do.