Hi everyone,

I'd solicited feedback from one of the admins before sending this, but I ap=
ologize if it's too much of an "ad" for some tastes. One of the other admin=
s saw the enquiry and was kind enough to contribute to the campaign and als=
o suggested I should share with the group, so you can blame him too ;)

For the past decade or so, I've been very interested in sensor networks. Or=
iginally the wire kind (1-Wire) and more recently wireless (firstly Wifi, a=
nd more recently Bluetooth Low Energy). A couple of years ago, I'd showed o=
ff my prototype Wifi gardening sensor at Mini Maker Faire here in Toronto a=
nd received good feedback.

Wifi has some serious limitations (really requires an access point to be pr=
actical, relatively high energy demands), so I got serious about using Blue=
tooth Low Energy in my R&D and ended up working with Nordic Semi BLE chips.=
 Originally I was going to use their nRF8001 and an Atmel MCU, but I took t=
he jump into the world of ARM CPUs and ended up learning more than I care t=
o know about ARM and programming ARM in C with their nRF51822 BLE SoC.

The culmination of all this R&D is a range of wireless sensors that I call =
"Motes" (I didn't coin the term; just commercialized it :D). I've recently =
launched an Indiegogo campaign (it's complicated to run a Kickstarter campa=
ign for those of us without a US or UK presence) here: http://bit.ly/13r5Sn=
X

While this note is a bit of a plug for the campaign (*hint*), I'm happy to =
answer questions about how I got to this point (it's been 'interesting'), D=
esign for Manufacture (a paradigm I've tried to embrace), and the whole cro=
wd funding experience so far.

Thanks for reading :)

-m




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