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 João Gonçalves <[email protected]>

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>
> 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
>> *
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