A pico is an event processing system. The functionality of a pico is independent of how the events are transported. Currently, events are transported over HTTP, encoded using the Sky Event protocol. 

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Raising Events with the Sky Event Console

The Sky Event Console is a Chrome application that raises events directly to the Sky API. 

Download the source code for the Sky Event Console from github.com. You install it as an unpacked extension from the source from the Extensions page in Chrome. 

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• Phil Windley has written a perl library, Kinetic::Raise, that supports properly formatting events for picos from within Perl programs.
• The Wrangler library has facilities for formatting and raising events from JavaScript. 
• Braden Hitchcok has written a python module, picosapi, for formatting and raising events from Python

If you develop libraries for other programming languages or frameworks, please let us know by posting to the Forum. 

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