On 26 July 2012 03:13, Siddharth Dagar <[email protected]> wrote:

> If anybody knows anything about mote development (hardware), or if anybody
> knows about any online sites where they go into detailed mote hardware
> component description, please guide me.
>

If you want to get started with hardware tinkering, the Arduino is a pretty
good start. Lots of available documentation and examples, and it's friendly
to beginners.

Once you feel comfortable building things and are no longer frying
components too frequently, you might find the Atmel ATmega128RFA1 a good
starting point for a mote. The chip already has TinyOS support, and with
the built-in radio you avoid a degree of complexity in setting up a new
TinyOS platform definition.

Be forewarned that it's a fair bit of work in getting a new platform set up
and working from scratch - debugging hardware is "fun", and unless you have
a nice set of tools at your disposal (like a good DSO), you'll be flying
dark for a lot of the time. That said, if you want a bit of a challenge and
have the time for it, you'll learn a lot and probably have a whole lot of
fun too :)

Good luck!

Cheers,
/Johny, who knows just enough about hardware to be dangerous to
components...
-- 
Johny Mattsson
Senior Software Engineer

DiUS Computing Pty. Ltd.
*where ideas are engineered
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