Pinoccio is an Arduino-compatible, web-enabled, wireless mesh networking ecosystem. Check out their website for more information, these little boards are awesome!!

Pinoccio Field Scout (Lego for scale)
One of the first things that amazed me about Pinoccio was its ScoutScript feature. This lets you run live commands on your Scout without recompiling! As an embedded engineer I’m so used to the code->compile->download->review process that being able to simply type a command on a microcontroller and see the result is amazing. See this demo I stole from the Pinoccio homepage:
As you can see, there are a lot of things available to play with – temperature, battery charge (that’s the 94%), an RGB LED on the Scout’s PCB, and all the digital and analogue pins are right there too.
I’m a little obsessed with the temperature of things, so I’ll be doing a couple of projects on measuring various temperatures around my home. Let’s have a look at the Pinoccio and then set it up for some data collection.
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