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/

@penny

These things were really cool, it's a shame Oracle killed them shortly after the acquisition
@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.