N X T M O T E

  - an Educational TinyOS Mote for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT

Motivation

• TinyOS is a small operating for small (wireless) sensors. LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT is a platform for embedded systems experimentation: The combination of NXT and TinyOS is NXTMOTE.

Documentation

• Link to an introductional tutorial: Lesson A: NXTMOTE Toolchain in tinyos-2.x-contrib.
• NXTMOTE documentation at the TinyOS Documentation Wiki. Also see the nescdt Eclipse plugin.

Software

• Sourceforge download
  • Ver. 0.0.8: Sensors (IoFromAvr) and BT-AM
  • Ver. 0.0.7: LCD write (with SPI)
  • Ver. 0.0.6: I2C and AVR unlock
  • Ver. 0.0.5: Timer and interupts setup
  • Ver. 0.0.1-0.0.4: Build environment and boot
• CVS: browse (at tinyos-2.x-contrib).
• API: browse (slightly enhanced nesdoc).

Links

• http://www.tinyos.net
• http://docs.tinyos.net
• http://www.hitechnic.com
• http://mindstorms.lego.com
• http://www.mindsensors.com
• http://nxtgcc.sourceforge.net
• http://nxtmote.sourceforge.net

Contact

• nxtmote(a)gmail.com

Acknowledgement(s)

Copyright

• To make it easier to clone/fork nxtmote the BSD copyright header just says "nxtmote project" .

Ideas

• Thinking about doing a term project using NXT? Perhaps look here.

Bibtex

@INBOOK{tosedunxt2007rup,
  chapter = {14},
  pages = {231-241},
  title = {TinyOS Education with LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT},
  publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
  year = {2007},
  editor = {Joćo Gama and Mohamed Medhat Gaber},
  author = {Rasmus Ulslev Pedersen},
  month = {September},
  abstract = {The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT (http://mindstorms.lego.com/) \textit{armed} with
	its embedded ARM7 and ATmega48 microcontrollers (MCUs), Bluetooth
	radio, four input ports, three output ports, and dozens of sensors is
	proposed as an educational platform for TinyOS (http://www.tinyos.net).
	The purpose of this chapter is to assess NXT for use in wireless
	sensor network education. To this end, the following items are evaluated:
	NXT hardware/software, LEGO MINDSTORMS "ecosystem" , and educational
	elements. We outline how this platform can be used for educational
	purposes due to the wide selection of available and affordable sensors.
	For hardware developers, the ease of creating new sensors will be
	hard to resist. Also, in the context of education, TinyOS can be
	compared to other embedded operating systems based on the same hardware.
	This chapter argues that this comparability facilitate across-community
	adoption and awareness of TinyOS. Finally, we present the first TinyOS
	project on NXT, hosted both at TinyOS 2.x contrib and SourceForge
	under the nxtmote name.},
  doi = {10.1007/3-540-73679-4}
}