> > Hello Siddharth >> for manufacturing your pcbs you can use pcbcart: >> http://www.pcbcart.com<http://www.pcbcart.com/?gclid=CN7alpf1trECFQpj3wodRH0AcA> >> >> I got them to produce and solder 20 motes I designed in the university. >> Cheap and not so bad service for the price. They will always try to use >> similar components they have in stock instead of yours however. But they >> always ask before making any change in the bill of materials. >> >> If you want to design your own mote, you need of course some pcb layout >> editor to design your platform. I use Altium designer. >> >> A starting point could be to look at the schematics and layouts of some >> comercial platforms like telos or mica, this way you cant get the idea of >> what the platform hardware is normally composed of. >> You can take a look here: >> http://www.tinyos.net/scoop/special/hardware#telosplatform >> >> 2012/7/26 Johny Mattsson <[email protected]> >> >>> 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 >>> * >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tinyos-help mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help >>> >> >> >
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