Written by Adam Dunkels,
Tuesday, 28 November 2006
Over 200 people have died in Europe as result of tunnel fires in the last decade. Can networked embedded systems assist fire fighters when a traffic accident causes a fire inferno inside a road tunnel? The RUNES project is building technology that helps locate both the burning veichles and people trapped inside the tunnel. The system is composed of small wireless networked sensors running Contiki.
Keeping the look of the source code in a software project consistent is very important. Does the Contiki source code have a default look? Yes. This code style is the one to follow if you want your code included in the Contiki code base.
Two years ago Glenn Jones made an Ethernet card for the 1984 compuer Apple II and Oliver Schmidt ported Contiki to it. Tim Haynes captured a video of an Apple II running Contiki and browsing the web that made the news back then. Here it is again.
Written by Adam Dunkels,
Saturday, 25 November 2006
EWSN, the European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, is the primary European conference on wireless sensor networks. EWSN 2007 is to be held at Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, on January 29-31, 2007. My colleague Thiemo Voigt is co-chair of the program committee for EWSN this year. The EWSN organizers are soliciting two-page abstracts for posters and demonstrations to be presented at the conference. The deadline is 3 December 2006. Read on for details.
ESB stands for Embedded Sensor Board and is a prototype device that was originally developed at the Free University of Berlin. It is one of the platforms we use to test and develop Contiki.
Written by Adam Dunkels,
Wednesday, 22 November 2006
Welcome to the new Contiki web site! The old Contiki web site consisted of static information and a "Latest news" section that was updated only occasionally. This led to a quite boring site.
The purpose of the new web site is to change all this: the new site consists of a dynamic front page where articles pertaining to Contiki are to be regularly posted. My plan is to have about one new article per week. Does it sound too little for your taste? Read on...
