posted Jul 4, 2009, 5:56 PM by Christopher Wilson
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I spent a couple minutes in Photoshop this weekend and whipped up a new trademark for OpenMote.com. You can even buy a trendy Sigg bottle :) Check out the store here. |
posted Jul 3, 2009, 5:58 PM by Christopher Wilson
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updated Jul 3, 2009, 6:28 PM
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Inspired by the Irene mote, I thought that it would be really cool to create another mote compatible with the Irene enclosure. It's got sensors to measure temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and ambient light in a wireless mote the size of a key-fob. However, as I started to work on the layout, I realized that by segregating the re-usable components from the application specific ones, I could create a template design that could be re-used over and over again. The hope is that this will save me time/effort/money (of which I have very little) later on when I want to create another mote. I'll be publishing the schematic / layout for the template mote and the weather sensing mote as soon as I have a chance to rev the layout (It works, but I found a few minor mistakes that are going to send this board to rev 2 before the files go public) Check it out here. |
posted May 2, 2009, 11:09 AM by Christopher Wilson
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updated Jul 3, 2009, 6:47 PM
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Information about the Lynx mote is available here. The Digi Xbee zigbee motes are getting really popular, and there's a decent amount of gear (from sparkfun.com and others) that includes a footprint for the Xbee modules. I thought it would be useful to create an EPIC based open source alternative to the Xbee, and Lynx is what resulted after a weekend playing around in Eagle (a lynx is a bee eating spider :) Prabal has also posted a pic on the EPIC website. Design files for Eagle coming soon... (I haven't had time to tidy them up yet) |
posted Feb 26, 2009, 7:45 PM by Christopher Wilson
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updated Jul 3, 2009, 5:52 PM
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OpenMote is live! As you probably have figured out, this site is powered by Google Sites. As a result of this, the layout is kind of kludgy, which is annoying. What is not annoying is that Google is hosting my site for free :) If I get to the point where kludgy navigation trumps paying for a real hosted site in annoyingness factor, I might port the site to another host.
This site is a MAJOR work in progress, so I apologize for the lack of polish...
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