I did this presentation with Zhiqi Tao at Sun Microsystem Melbourne Vic Australia on 28th May 2008.

1. Small
Programmable
Object
Technology
(Sun SPOT)
Zhiqi Tao Peng Deng
Sun Campus Master Research
Ambassador Student
The University of Melbourne

2. Agenda
Sun SPOT Overview
Sun SPOT
Application Demos
Q&A

3. What is Sun SPOT?
“Sun SPOTs are meant to be a
research platformquot;
-- Roger Meike

4. Why Sun SPOT?
• Separate developer from low level
hardware
• Quick and safe development
• Wireless connectivity
• Open platform

5. Why Sun SPOT?
• Open Source Now! Hardware, software,
Java VM...
> https://spots.dev.java.net/
• Help Sun growth
> “We hope that some of them [future devices with
Java] will generate data that will be processed
and stored on our servers.”
> “We hope that some developers will see new
uses for Java and Sun technologies as a result
of working with SPOTs. quot;

6. Sun SPOT Device

7. Sun SPOT Processor Board
2.4 GHz IEEE
Antenna 802.15.4 Radio Module
180 MHz 32 bit
ARM920T core
512K RAM
4M Flash
Daughter
board
connector
USB interface with
mini-B connector
Power Switch

8. Sun SPOT Sensor Board
8 3-colors LEDs Push Buttons
3D Accelerometer
Light Sensor
Analog in 4-5 Temperature
sensor
Digital I/O 0-3
Analog in 0-3
Push Buttons
Replicated here Digital I/O 4 quot;Highquot; current output 0-3

9. Squawk Java virtual machine

10. SunSPOT build and deploy process
javac
.java
Squawk
suite
.class converter
SunSPOT
.suite build
.bin
deploy

11. Launch Rocket within one day

12. Sun SPOT & Project Blackbox

13. Bouncing
Ball
demo

14. Air
Text
demo

15. Control
Virtual
Earth
with
Sun SPOT

16. SPOT
GamePad
demo

17. Research Project with Sun SPOT
• Gesture Based Human Computer Interface
• Why choose SPOT
> Easy to kick start
> Simple to implement
> Open source architecture
• SPOT + Machine Learning
> Sun SPOT iteratively measures acceleration data from
accelerometer and send it back to base station
> Machine learning engine do recognition on data stream
Supervisor: Dr. Lars Kulik, UNIMELB

18. Visit http://www.sunspotworld.com/
• Sun SPOT
Development kit
• Win it Free by
Submitting a
proposal for
classroom
curriculum using
Sun SPOTS

19. THANK YOU!
Zhiqi Tao
Sun Campus Ambassador
zhiqi.tao@sun.com
http://blogs.sun.com/tao/
Peng Deng
Sensing Ubiquity Mobility Research Lab
dengpeng.cn@gmail.com
http://www.sumlab.net/