Got the SPOT

Thank you, Sun (and Sun’s PR team), for sending me one of Sun’s SPOT (Small Programmable Object Technology) kits. It arrived earlier this week.

The SPOT kit contains a couple of battery-powered devices, each with sensors and a wireless transceiver, plus a base station and a Java SDK. You can see all the parts at Sun’s Web site.

What am I going to do with it? My son and I have a few ideas, which we’ll be playing with. We probably start with something really simple, like using it to make an indoor/outdoor temperature display (put one SPOT inside, one outside) as our “Hello, World” application. After that, who knows?