Computing beyond the keyboard, mouse and screen

Sidsel Jensen

Sun Labs released the SunSPOTs into the wild a couple of years ago, and since then people have been doing incredible stuff with this small embedded platform based on java.

SPOT stands for Small Programmable Object Technology. Its a little bigger than a box of matches yet it contains a full-featured ARM9 chip, a lithum-ion battery, a 802.15.4 radio and a sensor board. It runs java on the bare metal through a JVM called squawk. The platform is open source from the bottom up - everything from the hardware to the software.

This talk will introduce you to the SPOT platform and let you see it in action as well.

Sidsel Jensen is a graduate student at the University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science. She works part time in the IT-dept. at DIKU as a UNIX Sysadmin with a mean root access. She has been very active in the Danish open source community for several years and when she is not busy organizing conferences she does work as a Campus Ambassador for Sun Microsystems. Nevertheless she still loves her Mac.

Sidst opdateret: Thursday, September 4, 2008