Sun Small Programmable Object Technology Project (2007)

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by pjmlp • 6 years ago

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TJTeru• 6 years ago

Way ahead of their time. SunSPOTs were great!

jfim• 6 years ago

Those were fun. One of the cool thing about them is that most of the stack was written in Java.

The JVM itself was written in Java, the operating system was written in Java, and there was only a small bit of C code for initial bootstrapping and some C microcontroller code for some things (interrupt handling if I remember correctly).

santafen• 6 years ago

Can't believe that Sun SPOTs made it to Hacker News after all this time. I run the mirror site mentioned here, and still have a few drawers full of SPOTs (as well as a couple of complete kits in the boxes.

I was just talking to someone the other day about resurrecting the Squawk VM and porting it to the Cortex Mx architecture. It really was ahead of its time.

mlyle2• 6 years ago

80-100k SRAM is still a pretty steep tax for most Cortex Mx parts, though not the largest.

pjmlp2• 6 years ago

Given the kind of applications I was able to write in 640KB, there might be still enough space available, even after taking 100k away.

By the way here is a port to ESP8266, MICROBIT, LPC1768, NUCLEO_L476.

https://github.com/tomatsu/squawk

pjmlp2• 6 years ago

Due to your remark, I have found this https://github.com/tomatsu/squawk

I think another alternative would be microEJ, I guess.

saagarjha• 6 years ago

Sun Labs' ECC implementations power a small-footprint, secure Web server stack (including HTTP and SSL), nicknamed Sizzle, that can be embedded inside a wide array of small devices, so you can monitor and control them securely via a Web browser.

Interesting name.

Sun Small Programmable Object Technology Project (2007)

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