I organized a SunSPOT in my university on 26th of June 2009 (Friday). It was quite successful and more than 20 students from the university attended the seminar. The SunSPOT presentations on Campus Ambassador's website helped me a lot. They provided me a base for the demos and the contents of the seminar.
I started to plan this seminar almost one month ago. The things i was most concerned about were the demos. Another important thing was to clearly explain and demostrate the ease of use and the advantage of using SunSPOT as compared to other alternatives. For this I downloaded some demos from the internet before hand and understood the code very well. Moreover, i spent a lot of time with SunSPOT Manager and NetBeans IDE.
Many students came to me and also sent me emails after the seminar. Some of them want to use SunSPOT in their reserach and serious applications while other showed their interest in using SunSPOT to control the toys and make toys that can do what you want them to do and not what they are programmed to do by default.
I would like to thank everyone who helped me with the seminar especially Yuiko Matsuzuka, Hajime Akashi from Sun Tokyo Office. I would also like to thank Cristian Davi and Azhar Khan for helping me with the preperations and cleaning of the room. I have attached some pictures of the seminar.
