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Pinguino is an Arduino like board based on a PIC Microcontroller and environment built in Python: Pinguino is Open hardware and Open software! The goal of this project is to build an integrated IDE (Integrated Development Environment) easy to use and a complete package with compiler, assembler, linker and bootloader, nothing to install! Pinguino is compatible with arduino/wiring langage. An integrated preprocessor translates specific Arduino instructions directly into C. This preprocessor reduces the code length and the execution speed. Pinguino hardware is based on a PIC18F2550 for Traditional and Simplified Hardware or PIC18F4455/PIC18F4550 for Tiny Hardware. These chip have an integrated native USB module and an UART for serial link. Finally the Pinguino IDE is a stand alone application with a C compiler (SDCC), assembler and linker (Gputils) and a bootloader based on the PUF VASCO project. For more information click here for an official Wiki main page or here for Web site.