The waspmote

For those of you that take an interest in M2M and/or embedded things. You should look at the Waspmote. This is a generic hardware that can be customized to fit any need. Communication : GPRS / Wifi / ZigBee / USB Location : GPS Power usage : Low consuption, battery or solar as power input Storage : SD Card (2GB), no other storage memory Sensors : Everything you might need (really impressive set of sensors) I looked at the API and it’s in C (pretty low level, you have to free everything) but everything seems to be handled at a high level. It’s sometimes better to have a smart C API rather than a dumb Java API. Look at the examples, they are really easy to read, you don’t need to be a skilled C developer to understand everything. ...

November 25, 2009 · Florent Clairambault