And by pure coincidence, our CEO Neb came to work today dressed like Steve Jobs.
Call it throwback Thursday, but the fact is we’ve been busy making all sorts of
announcements—most notably the release of Wunderbar and the launch
of Flowpaw on Kickstarter—that we neglected to mention—it somehow slipped
through the cracks—that our friend Lucio Di Jasio made a mikromedia bootloader
for OS X.
I love the bootloader that comes with MikroElektronika products, and in particular the mikromedia boards,
wrote Lucio on his blog, but for one thing… it does not run on my platform of choice: OS X.
Lucio then goes on and he explains how everything works in detail, and shares
the code via a bitbucket repository. The application runs both in command line mode
and GUI mode. Currently it supports mikromedia for PIC24 only, but you’re
invited to improve it and expand it.
On a separate, but also Steve Jobs-related note*, Robert (AKA Megahurts), member
of our forums nailed the description of our workplace in an email the other day:
“I think its awesome the things you guys are coming out with and that you're always
busy at it. I have this image in my head that working [in MikroE] is a lot like
working for PIXAR Studios, they also take great pride in keeping work and the
workplace as fun as possible.”
That’s spot on. It’s also flattering, Pixar Animations is a great company.
So you see, even though Lucio’s project deserved to be mentioned earlier, you can
still be sure that more timely exciting announcements and news from us are coming
up in the future. We’re quite busy, but we try to keep you informed and do our best
to give you a portrayal of what it’s like in MikroElektronika.
Also, stay tuned for Roberts Element 14 roadtest review, featuring some of
our boards.
Yours sincerely,
MikroElektronika
*for those of you who didn’t know, Jobs was one of the co-founders, and CEO of Pixar
)
Hmmm, maybe time for a trip to Vegas to find some high (drunk or not) rollers foolish enough to play me? 
), we both have a Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) influenced & twisted sense of humor. I recognized it in every one of his news posts. It was also the 'give away' for my making the comment about PIXAR and Mikroe similarities in work ethos.