Penny

okay I can finally show off these things- Sun SPOTs, weird little java on metal microcontrollers from 2005/2006!

http://nug.only9fans.com/penny/SunSPOTs/

Mar 16 at 4:34pmWeb
Show threadPennyMar 16
Lots of cool demos on them, here’s a telemetry demo with a host app
Show threadPennyMar 16

and Java doesn’t mind running in simple terminals so I can can use tribblix over ssh and work with the spots without using the terminal emulator

And tribblix is nice and modern and I can use sshfs and build a namespace so I can edit files on 9 and compile/deploy with tribblix

Show threadnotptrMar 16
@penny do you issue commands over ssh?
Show threadPennyMar 17
@notptr yeah I ssh in load my .profile and then do rc -i (tribblix actually ships plan9port !)
Show threadPennyMar 17
@notptr and you’ll find things very convenient if you mount unix paths exactly as they are on the target host and start a subrio/sublola, e.g. file completion works
Show threadnotptrMar 17
@penny ok cool
Show threadNovaMar 16
@penny S... S... S... SUN SPOTS!?
Show threadPennyMar 16
@doraii now you know where they got the name! /s
Show threadHaelwenn /элвэн/ 6d ago
@penny How the heck am I only discovering those now…
Show threadPenny6d ago
@lanodan haha probably cause they were $500 and most schools preferred mindstorms
Show threadMichael Engel6d ago
@penny Ah, that's a name I haven't heard for a long time, nice!
Show threadpfriedma6d ago
@penny

These things were really cool, it's a shame Oracle killed them shortly after the acquisition
Show threadPenny6d ago
@pfriedma I know….and the timing was literally going to be perfect IoT would start getting big as the kids who learned to use them matured into the workforce.
Show threadAnthony Sorace6d ago
@penny @dasparky I have a set of these and really want to get Brian Stuart’s inferno port on them.
Show threadPenny6d ago
@a @dasparky ooh I hope you can get ahold of it, I couldn't find it though I hadn't tried to email Brian!
Show threadmjdxp5d ago
@penny damn it, i literally just set up my sun ray 3 last night and now i immediately want this... i can never be satisfied with the toys i already have i guess :P
Show threadPenny5d ago
@mjdxp ha ha
just send offers try not to pay more than like $125 , they are not worth $300-500
Show threadmjdxp5d ago
@penny i can't even find any for sale at the moment :P maybe some will come up eventually
Show threadDavide Bettio5d ago
@penny it's not Java, but nowadays you can have crazy features on a microcontroller with an ESP32 and AtomVM, including Erlang Distribution so you can cluster together microcontrollers 😉