Posts with keyword: pico+engine

7 entries

Identity Enables Autonomy

Wed Oct 28 16:20:00 2026

Moving a pico from one engine to another looks like a migration feature, but the point is autonomy. Most people will never run their own servers, so freedom online depends on apps and data that can move between hosts, and identity is what lets them move without breaking. This post lays out the argument behind my IIW demo.
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Pico Engine 1.8 Is for Builders

Tue Oct 27 09:19:00 2026

Smalltalk taught a generation of programmers what it felt like to build by conversing with a live system, and Alan Kay hoped it would turn users into builders. Version 1.8 of the pico engine takes both ideas seriously: a better developer UI for people, an MCP surface for agents, and a schema underneath that makes both possible. This post describes the release and why the builders it serves don't all have to be developers.
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Moving Picos from Mesh to Mesh

Mon Oct 12 09:30:00 2026

Software that can’t leave the machine it was born on isn’t really yours. Version 1.7 of the pico engine lets a pico and its subtree move between engines while its relationships keep working, because other picos follow its DID rather than its address. This post describes what moves, why identity is what makes it possible, and what’s still ahead.
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Moving My Sensor Network onto Manifold

Thu Sep 17 10:08:00 2026

I moved my working LoRaWAN sensor network onto the new Manifold framework and pointed Home Assistant at it as the interface. The port went smoothly until the OAuth protection on the mesh blocked the inbound webhooks Helium uses to deliver readings. The fix was to let a mesh owner scope access channel by channel, and the pico engine now supports it.
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A Map of the Manifold Environment

Wed Aug 5 08:35:00 2026

A reader asked for a map of the whole Manifold environment and the functional capabilities of each part. I have described this system across three posts, a piece at a time, but never in one picture.
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Using Home Assistant with Manifold

Mon Aug 3 07:50:00 2026

Manifold is evolving into a proper framework for building meshes of picos, and Home Assistant gives those meshes an interface. A new Home Assistant integration proves out three pieces at once: an OAuth workflow on the pico-engine that lets outside software into the mesh on the owner's terms, a mature interface rather than a custom one, and a pattern that lets specialized communities extend the platform.
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A System Ruleset for the Pico Engine

Fri Jun 17 15:08:00 2016

I made a small change to the pico engine recently that has big implications for how we monitor, control, and configure it.
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