What's New at Binho — Mission Control + SDK

Mission Control 3 is now in Public Preview

Jonathan Georgino — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:57:17 GMT

Mission Control 3 is now in Public Preview. Over the past seven months we rebuilt our point-and-click software from the ground up, and the result is a major step up in both experience and capability. You can explore it now on the Mission Control 3 page.

The idea is one workbench instead of a dozen vendor utilities. Drive hardware over I2C, SPI, I3C, and GPIO from a single interface, program I2C EEPROMs and SPI flash with a visual hex editor, and compose and sequence transactions without writing a line of code. It runs in the browser or as a native app on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Composing and running a single I2C transaction in Mission Control 3.

Building and running a sequence of I2C transactions.

I3C support is a highlight: HDR modes up to 12.5 MHz, In-Band Interrupts, Hot-Join, and dynamic addressing, all from a point-and-click interface.

Every Supernova and Pulsar can run Mission Control 3 today, free of charge. All you need is the latest firmware, which updates in a couple of clicks from the final release of Mission Control 2. New Supernova and Pulsar units are ready for it out of the box.

This is a preview, so it ships the most foundational features today. We have planned new releases every two weeks for the foreseeable future, each adding functionality as it clears our internal testing and feedback from an early-adopter pool. Expect steady, frequent improvements.

Update your device and head to the Mission Control 3 page to get started.

Mission Control 2.17.3: automated migration to our new Airlock bootloader

Jonathan Georgino — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:02:50 GMT

Mission Control 2.17.3 is out, and the headline is a fully guided flow for moving your Supernova or Pulsar onto Binho Airlock, our new secure bootloader. If your device is still on firmware below 4.3.0, Mission Control now detects it on connect and walks you through migrating the bootloader and firmware in one confirmed step. No manual flashing, and no hunting for files.

Once a device is on Airlock (firmware 4.3.0 and later), Mission Control keeps it current automatically, downloading and applying .afx firmware updates for you.

So why update the bootloader? Airlock improves the firmware update experience and adds new ways to update firmware beyond USB mass storage, including our browser-based update utility. Under the hood it has a smaller footprint and sets the stage for a range of new device features we'll be releasing over the coming weeks.

Already running Mission Control 2? You will be prompted to auto-update the next time you launch it. New to it? Download Mission Control for Windows, macOS, and Linux from the Mission Control page.

CosmicSDK v1.3.0: cross-platform, with Python, Java, and C# bindings

Jonathan Georgino — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:00:00 GMT

CosmicSDK v1.3.0 is here. Over the last few releases, the SDK has grown from a C and C++ library into a cross-platform toolkit with first-class bindings for Python, Java, and C#, so you can drive Supernova and Pulsar from whatever stack your project already runs on.

It now runs on Windows, macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), and Linux, including arm64. v1.3.0 itself adds finer device control, programmatic bus-voltage readback, broader I3C CCC command coverage, and version reporting across the bindings, all on top of the I2C, I3C, SPI, UART, and GPIO support already in place.

We've also published new customer-facing documentation, with an architecture and threading overview and protocol examples for every binding. Browse the docs, or read the v1.3.0 changelog for the full list of changes.