SunSPOTs with ham radio APRS
Sean Sheedy has a cool post about the possibility of using Sun Microsystems’s SunSPOT technology with amateur radio APRS technology.
SunSPOT at its simplest looks like this: a processor board that includes a small Java based executive and a 2.4GHz RF link, and a sensor board that includes a couple basic sensors plus some general purpose I/O to interface to external third party devices. The development kit is not cheap ($550 USD), but is comparable in price to what you’d pay for a quality scratch-an-itch kit radio (think Elecraft). The dev kit also comes with all the Java libraries to get started programming.
Pretty cool.
[tags]ham radio, aprs, sunspot, embedded java[/tags]
