Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT) Demonstration
Friday Apr 04, 2008
Jyotirmoy Banerjee and I gave a Technical Demonstration on Sun SPOTs on 1st April to the students of my college. It was the most interactive session so far esp because most of the students had not been exposed to a gadget of this sort ever before. I started with a brief description of wireless sensor networks and then followed it with Telemetry demo. After explaining the device and programming in detail I gave a demo on AirText and Bounce. Jyotirmoy continued with the presentation from thereon and explained the eDemo Board and how to interface the Sun SPOT to external sensors and devices. He also introduced the students to the other add on boards. This was followed by a demonstration of the Sun SPOT controlled Car that we had built along with Rupak Banerjee sometime back. Jyotirmoy also explained the difference between Sun SPOT and the other competitive products. Finally I demonstrated the Sun SPOT emulator (Solarium) to get them started even if they do not have the hardware.
Everyone was more interested in the robotic Car and they had a closer look at it and asked some more questions at the end of the sessions. A few pens, cap and chocolates were given to the attendees.
I have uploaded the presentation and the photographs.
The following day I demonstrated the Sun SPOT device to our Director Prof BS Sohi and a senior Faculty Prof DN Singh. Even they were pretty amazed to see the variety of applications that the Sun SPOT can be used for.
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Nice presentation
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