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Sun SPOT Tech Talk

Ever since I was introduced to the Sun SPOT technology by Michael Hayden a month or so back, I have been bouncing the idea of bringing it to Purdue off of members at our local ACM. Everyone that hears about Sun SPOTs and the vast array of things that can be done with them is intrigued by the idea. Because of this, I held a tech talk of the technology this past December 6th. The tech talk had a turn out of about 20 students and faculty.

We watched a number of different sample videos online of what can be done with these little devices. The presentation sparked a number of different questions from the audience. They ranged from the whether squawk could run on other architectures to the nature of the AES in the wireless configuration. It seems to be the general consensus that we want to bring this technology to Purdue.

With this in mind, we will be asking not only our local OSUG SIGOS (http://sigos.cs.purdue.edu) but as well as our local ACM to come up with interesting ideas for what we would do with Sun SPOTs. If any of you have any ideas that you have yet to see and would like to let me know please comment or email me at jonatha.micklos@sun.com. In the event that this is successful enough, it is possible this may spawn off an embedded SIG at Purdue through the local ACM.

Posted at 08:35PM Dec 15, 2007 by jmicklos in Sun  |  Comments[0]