On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Christopher Wilson < [email protected]> wrote:
> (apologies if this isn't the correct list to post about new hardware) > > Around new years I had day or two of free time and decided to create an > 802.15.4 cape for the BeagleBone Cape Contest > (http://beagleboard.org/CapeContest) > > The cape is called the Epic Cape and it is essentially a PCB shim for > the Epic TinyOS platform that provides UART/SPI+GPIO link between the > Epic module and the BeagleBone embedded Linux board (it also operates > standalone as a wonky looking mote). > > See http://flyingcampdesign.github.com/epic-cape/ for the design files > (all BSD-like open source). > > If you're feeling particularly nice, you can even vote for my submission > by like/+1/tweet on the entry page > http://beagleboard.org/CapeContest/entries/Epic+Cape/ If the submission > wins, the board will be manufactured and sold through CircuitCo > Electronics. > Cool! > I'm curious if any of you guys would be interested in playing around > with something like this for a LoWPAN border/egress router? > We have developed something similar in the past using IGEP (beagleboard alike) and Raspberry Pi boards for external projects (and internal geekery), as a twist sometimes the motes can wear a more powerful board as a shield and not only the other way around :) we threw additional things like a switch load and an external WDT too, it was fun. A downsider of using Beaglebone boards is its price, for most WSN/border-router applications it might be an overkill, Rpi are cheaper, there are new products around taking advantage of it (see EVE from Ciseco http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ciseco/eve-alpha-raspberry-pi-wireless-development-hardwa ). Just my two cents, thanks for sharing! --Antonio _______________________________________________ > Tinyos-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help > -- -- Antonio Liñan Colina R+D+I Engineer @: [email protected] @: [email protected] ------------------------------ Advancare T: +34 93 582 02 70 http://www.advancare.com http://www.zolertia.com http://zolertia.sourceforge.net http://webshop.zolertia.com
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