[Tinyos-help] Mica2 Installation Guide available

[Mark Bramwell]

I am only familar with the Mica2 mote. After seeing your message, I checked 
out the Crossbow website and downloaded the spec sheet.  The cricket seems 
to be based on the Mica2 but uses the 433mhz radio chip.

I would assume that the guide and files would work fairly well as a starting 
point. The only section that probably needs changing is the section on 
setting the radio frequency. My guide suggests hard coding the source code 
to 900mhz otherwise you will be fighting to get the compiler options correct 
whenever you compile something.  In your case you could set the file to 
433mhz.  The mica2 uses the CC1000 radio chip. With the cricket you would 
make the changes in the header file that corresponds to the radio chip used 
by the cricket.

If someone was to send me a couple of crickets, I would gladly make a guide 
for them.  Otherwise, If someone would like to try the following the guide 
for a cricket installation and make notes of the differences, I would 
include the changes into the guide.

I have used the parallax ultrasonic devices for a robot for navigation 
(stops it from bumping into things and falling down stairs). It would be an 
interesting project to see how crickets and robots get along.

http://www.parallax.com/detail.asp?product_id=28015



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sankar Gorthi" <sankar.b.gorthi at gmail.com>
To: "Mark Bramwell" <motes at foxhollow.ca>; 
<Tinyos-help at millennium.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] Mica2 Installation Guide available


> Hi,
>
> Excellent guide. Really helped.
>
> Quick question, have you tested your setup with the Cricket series?
>
> Sankar.
>
> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:29:19 -0500, Mark Bramwell <motes at foxhollow.ca> 
> wrote:
>
>> I have been creating an "Installation Guide CD-ROM" for my fellow 
>> students at our University.  After pulling my hair out for weeks, I have 
>> been able to create a reproducable and stable environment for Mica2 
>> motes with sensorboards.
>>
>> The guide is useful for anyone that does not know where to start or has 
>> got themselves to a certain point and are receiving well-known error 
>> messages.
>>
>> I am using TinyOS 1.1.15 under WindowsXP.
>>
>> I am still working on the guide (note that the final chapter regarding 
>> experiments is still being typed) but the current doc should be able to 
>> get new Mica2 boards fresh from the factory running some experiments in 
>> less than 2 hours. I am using the software on both a desktop as well as 
>> a laptop with an USB-to-Serial adapter.
>>
>> If you want to see what I have so far, I have mounted the CDROM onto a 
>> website:
>>
>> http://hamster.foxhollow.ca/TinyOS
>>
>> For those that want to start really fast, you only need 3 files from the 
>> site:
>> 1. UW Mica2 Installion Guide
>> 2. UCB TinyOS 1.1.11 Installer for Windows
>> 3. TinyOS 1.1.15 update
>>
>> If you find something that is not working in your setup, let me know.
>>
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>
>
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