This week, Sun announced the soon-to-be-availability of SunSPOT developer's
kits. (http://www.sunspotworld.com/products/) These little guys have a
32-bit ARM processor, 512K of RAM, 4M flash, USB, 2.4GHz wireless, 3-axis
accelerometer, temp & light sensors, and would seem to be somewhat PIC or
hobbiest friendly, with pins left over for GPIO.

They claim to be Java-programmable, and remotely, securely updateable via
wireless.

The dev kit (which includes 3 SPOTs) seems a little pricey, but I'm
intrigued.  The Java interface seems like it's aimed at the click & drool
crowd, but I'm all for rapid prototype tools, and opening the field of
embedded devices to a wider hobbiest audience.

Is anyone else?  Tell me why they suck, and what better/cheaper tools/toys
are out there.

Thanks.

-Sean

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Sean C. Malloy                        smalloy@io.com
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