William Wong
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ED Online ID #13267 |
August 10, 2006
More on the other item as well. I stopped by Crossbow Technology’s booth as well. They have an 802.15.4 solution called MoteWorks. MoteWorks is a framework with Zigbee-like features. It is based on TinyOS (see “TinyOS Plus ZigBee Stack Targets Tiny Tasks,” ED Online 12927). A kit from Crossbow will also be in the hands-on article so I will save most of the details till then. MoteWorks brings mesh support to 802.15.4 in addition to features such as remote firmware downloads.
There is still more at NI Week. I am hoping to stop by Dean Kamen’s keynote tomorrow about science and academics. It plays off a number of other sessions as NI Week including an experts panel I attended today. Things are looking up with companies like NI and Lego providing product and, possibly more important, support for academic activities that will help promote science, technology and engineering in our most important resource, our children.
Right now it is time for the basics: dinner. Enjoy.
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