Welcome to the early version of www.sunspot.systronix.com
This web site is the work of Systronix Inc, a SPOT Beta site.
The official SPOT resource is sunspotworld
Systronix is now shipping SunSPOT kits worldwide
Check out TrackBot - converts SunSPOT into a smart autonomous robot

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Newer entries are at the bottom of this page

 

Date/Link Description
2006 Sep 14
First Impressions. Installing and upgrading SPOT firmware.
2006 Sep 23
Running Bounce and Air Text Demos. Editting within Eclipse. Dealing with some USB serial port glitches.
2006 Sep 25
Benchmarks - surprisingly good.
2007 Jan
Installing and upgrading SPOT Kit #2. Using mulitple SPOT SDKs within Eclipse.
2007 Apr 20
More upgrading
2007 May
TrackBot released, using SunSPOT as it's application processor.
2007 Nov 19
Purple SDK, prepping SPOTs to run TrackBot code which uses obstacle sensors. Serial I/O bugs in SPOT firmware.

Credits, thanks and whom to blame:

All the photos here are courtesy of Bruce Boyes - peruse their metadata for a bit more information. SunSPOT, Java, etc are trademarks of Sun Microsystems. Thanks to the great SunSPOT team at Sun Labs (no, not Sun Laboratories) for letting us participate in the alpha and beta programs. And to Radio Paradise for great music to program and write by.