I was so lucky to get a free entrance pass to the Embedded World 2008 in Nuremberg (Germany) and was because of my work as Sun Campus Ambassador of cause looking for Sun Microsystems colleagues and new upcoming technologies from Sun Microsystems. To my surprise I had a really hard time finding anyone who had anything to do with Sun Technologies...I was wondering - why are we not represented when companies like AMD, Intel, Microsoft and the like are represented with big impressive stands? Intel had a cool motorbike controlled by their technologies and Microsoft were there to promote their embedded versions of XP and upcoming Vista embedded (don't know if it’s really embedded as the footprint is around 400 Megs). Lots of representatives for Linux dists where also there, but where was Sun...And where were the Sun Spots?
I went through the list of exhibitors, and finally found something - it was /k/ Embedded Java Solutions , which is a small company situated in Belgium and focusses on development of Java VMs for embedded CPUs e.g. ARM7TDMI, ARM9, MIPS, PowerPC, x86. The footprint for their VM implementation without AWT is <2MB and including AWT approx. 2.5 MB, crazy, huh?! ...was missing the sun a bit... :)
Wow, that bike looks nice! You should've borrowed it and stopped by Denmark for the weekend ;-)
Have you had a chance to try out more your Sun SPOTs? I have only done the basics as well as doing some Wiimote hacking ala Johnny Lee, and I'm trying to come up with a cool idea of how to combine the whole lot incl. my phone... Gotta get everything talking together... If only the TV/Stereo etc. were Bluetooth controlled - a Sun SPOT would be a pretty cool little gyromote :-)
Posted by Lars Ottesen Henriksen on March 06, 2008 at 08:10 AM PST #