The IEEE embedded systems group is having a presentation that might be of interest to LUG members. They don't run Linux, but they are pretty neat toys.
Alan http://www.ieee-embedded.org 1/22 meeting - SUN SPOT 6:00pm - 8:00pm MCNC, Cornwallis Road in RTP/Durham On Monday January 22, 2007 David Simmons will present Project Sun SPOT (Sun; Small Programmable Object Technology). This is a snapshot of ongoing research in Sun Microsystems Laboratories. Based on Sun's experience with Java and the KVM and its use in cell phones, they thought that applying Java to an embedded Sensor Networks Platform would be an intriguing are for further work. In November of 2004, Sun Labs started project Sun SPOT to build sensor hardware and to adapt a small, flexible Java Virtual Machine to that platform. Sun created a platform that greatly simplifies development and experimentation with small wireless devices by basing the Sun SPOT platform on Java technology-top to bottom, hardware and software. This has made it easier to write code for small wireless transducers, sensors, and other consumer electronics devices. Developers can write a program in Java, load it on a device, run it, and debug it with standard Java IDEs. Unlike other embedded systems, SunSPOT developers are able to use industry standard Java development tools such as Netbeans or Eclipse. The SunSPOT team is also introducing SPOTWorld, which is a single tool for programming, configuring, managing and monitoring SPOT devices. SPOTWorld addresses the issues of programming and managing hundreds of devices spread out over a large area. The Sun SPOT team has also made it possible to add strong security without compromising the limited memory and processing capabilities of small devices. Sun Labs' ECC implementations power a small-footprint, secure Web server stack (including HTTP and SSL), so you can monitor and control them securely via a Web browser. David's talk will address ALL of these issues in more detail. He will also show demos of a wide array of sensors adapted to the Sun SPOT platform, and demonstrate the actual development and deployment of a Sun SPOT application. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
