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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