[Tinyos-help] TinyOS development platform question

2009-04-07 Thread David Li
Hi, I am new to TinyOS. From what I have learned there seems to have two platoforms to develop. One is commercial and the other is open source. Commercial package such as Crossbow's Moteworks runs on Windows and provides nice GUI. So it might be easier for beginners but I am not sure what the limit

Re: [Tinyos-help] TinyOS development platform question

2009-04-07 Thread Michael Schippling
TinyOS itself is freely available and some kind of open source. There are two major versions, 1 and 2 with similar but not enriely congruent in features. You can develop with it on Windows or various flavors of Linux, and maybe even the Mac. I haven't actually used Moteworks but I believe it is bas

Re: [Tinyos-help] TinyOS development platform question

2009-04-07 Thread David Li
Yes, you are right Xbow kit supports TinyOS 1.x. So aside from GUI are there any major improvements in power consumption between 1.x and 2.x? On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Michael Schippling wrote: > TinyOS itself is freely available and some kind of open source. > There are two major versions