Yes, you are right Xbow kit supports TinyOS 1.x. So aside from GUI are there any major improvements in power consumption between 1.x and 2.x?
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Michael Schippling <[email protected]>wrote: > TinyOS itself is freely available and some kind of open source. > There are two major versions, 1 and 2 with similar but not > enriely congruent in features. You can develop with it on Windows > or various flavors of Linux, and maybe even the Mac. I haven't > actually used Moteworks but I believe it is based on a tinyos > v1.x platform. Xbow may have added more support for their > hardware...you'd have to look carefully for what bits you > want to work with. As far as I'm concerned a GUI is a waste > of time and will only distract from trying to get embedded > programs to work, but that's just me... > > For more on TOS itself see: > http://tinyos.net/ > http://docs.tinyos.net/index.php/Main_Page > > MS > > David Li wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am new to TinyOS. From what I have learned there seems to have two >> platoforms to develop. One is commercial and the other is open source. >> Commercial package such as Crossbow's Moteworks runs on Windows and provides >> nice GUI. So it might be easier for beginners but I am not sure what the >> limitations are compared to open source development (e.g. on Linux platform) >> if the application gets more complex. >> >> Can anyone comment on the difference between these two? >> >> Thanks. >> >> David >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tinyos-help mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help >> >
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