You guys seen this ?

["christopher purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

Hope its not already been posted but this little device looks cool.

http://www.sunspotworld.com/

Hardware:

A Sun SPOT device is built by stacking a Sun SPOT processor board with a
sensor board and battery.
Sun SPOT Processor Board

* 180 MHz 32 bit ARM920T core - 512K RAM/4M Flash
* 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 radio with integrated antenna
* USB interface
* 3.6V rechargeable 750 mAh lithium-ion battery
* 48 uA deep sleep mode

General Purpose Sensor Board

* 2G/6G 3-axis accelerometer
* Temperature sensor
* Light sensor
* 8 tri-color LEDs
* 6 analog inputs
* 2 momentary switches
* 5 general purpose I/O pins and 4 high current output pins

Software:

* Squawk Virtual Machine
o Fully capable J2ME CLDC 1.1 Java VM with OS functionality
o VM executes directly out of flash memory
o Device drivers written in Java
o Automatic battery management
* Developer Tools
o Use standard IDEs. e.g. NetBeans, to create Java code
o Use SPOTWorld to manage and deploy applications to sets of Sun
SPOTs
o Integrates with J2SE applications
o Sun SPOT wired via USB to a computer acts as a base-station



Chris