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.

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.

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)

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...