category: Contiki

Recently I have been helping Andy Gelme with a project which uses contiki-os, and 6lowpan on a device called a MeshThing. This required us to setup a small IPv6 network from scratch, independent of the internet, this turned out to be quite a bit different an objective of most of the how to’s we found so I decided to document our method, as much for others as myself. In our case the network looked as follows:...

I am currently working on building a simple wireless sensor using the ATmega256RFR2 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit. This kit includes a base board and a bunch of other peripherals to mess around with. When I started reading up on the kit I noticed it required windows to install some 600mb + more IDE (gasp), to hack on a small micro controller. This really didn’t gel with me, especially considering said IDE:...