We have developed our own simple sensorboards which use the Atmel chip's 
ADC (channels 1-6).  You basically just need to design your PCB and order
some Hirose connectors.  A piece of protoboard and a soldering iron is
a good start....

Then you can write the TinyOS software --- I modeled mine after the
software for the mda300, in CVS under
tinyos-1.x/contrib/xbow/tos/sensorboards/mda300 the demonstration on
how to use it is in tinyos-1.x/contrib/xbow/tos/apps/XSensorMDA300/

The difference is that your software would be much simpler, because you
just interface to the ADCs, not through the I2C bus.  So you can write
a module that is a combination of IBADCM.nc and SamplerM.nc.  We used
PW1 though PW6 to excite each sensor.

If you need more than 6 sensors, you will need to add an ADC to your
board, and then I recommend you study and/or acquire the MDA300.

Hope this helps,
-Kim.

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 04:09:42PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi
>       i am new to Tiny OS. i am working on a robotics project in which i m using MPR 
> 400CB mote. i want to develop a PCB board to hook up some sensors to the mote. I m 
> sure some work has been done on this before. can i get more literature/info on the 
> design of the PCB sensor boards for motes from somewhere. 
> 
>                                            thanks.........
> 
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