Equipment for course projects

The following is a list of sensor network equipment available for use in students' course projects.

Processor and Radio Boards

• TelosB/Tmote Sky IEEE 802.15.4 radio, without external sensors, quantity: 10 (archived Tmote datasheet)

(Note: the Tmote Sky and TelosB are functionally equivalent. Any hardware or software information about the TelosB motes also applies to the Tmote Sky.)

• TelosB/Tmote Sky IEEE 802.15.4 radio, with temperature, light, and humidity sensors, quantity: 20

• TelosB/Tmote Sky IEEE 802.15.4 radio, with temperature, light, humidity, and accelerometer sensors, quantity: 3

• MPR410CB Mica2 mote, 433Mhz radio, quantity: 56

• MPR2400 MICAz IEEE 802.15.4 radio, quantity: 12

Mote Programming Boards

Note that programming boards are not required for the TelosB or Tmote Sky motes.

• MIB510CA Mote Programming Board, quantity: 7

Sensor Boards

• MTS310CA Multi-Sensor Board for Mica family, with speaker, quantity: 3

• MTS310CA Multi-Sensor Board for Mica family, with accelerometer and magnetometer, quantity: 2

• MDA300 Environmental Monitoring Board for Mica family, quantity: 1 (driver in TinyOS CVS)

• EasySen SBT80 sensorboard for TelosB, quantity: 5 (sample code)

(For reliability, you may need to solder a socket onto the TelosB expansion header.)

Robots

• PPRK Robot, quantity: 1

• LEGO Mindstorms Education Base Set, Lego.pdf LeJOS firmware, quantity: 2

Other Available Equipment

• NSLU2 Network Storage Link ("Slug"), quantity: 15 (Linux firmware/hardware hacking information)

• X10 ActiveHome Kit, quantity: 1

• ECH2O EC-20 soil moisture sensor, quantity: 1

• Car OBD-II devices
  • 2 "OBD-II to DB9" cables.
  • "OBD-II to UART" kits
    • 2 sparkfun brand OBD-II UART boards
    • 2 USB-UART serial converters
    • 2 ribbon cables.

TinyOS 1.x-Only Equipment

This equipment is not supported by TinyOS 2.0. The TA will be unable to offer assistance with TinyOS 1.x. We offer this equipment for advanced students who are willing to debug their projects without the TA's assistance.

• MCS410 Cricket Mote, 433Mhz radio, quantity: 14

This equipment was made possible by NSF ITR Grant CCR-0325529.