RE: [Embedlets-dev] Global Light Blinker Project proposal

[James C. <ca...@vi...>]

Hi Ted,

As always lots of good ideas's here. I suppose I should dust up my jxta
skills soon also. This project does get me wondering though.. Wondering
about what happened to outpost. I don't think the graphic wiring tool
was the thing that slowed it down. 

I wonder if we are going to make the effort to build something like this
that it shouldn't be more along the lines of an outpost demo that might
have a commercial impact rather than a hobbyst project.

The other thing we need to be careful of is not to dilute our efforts to
such an extent that progress stalls.

James Caska
www.muvium.com
uVM - 'Java Bred for Embedded'



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Ted Kosan
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Subject: [Embedlets-dev] Global Light Blinker Project proposal


Topic tags:[ARCH][JAPL][WIRING][DOCS][MGMT][STRATEGY][NEWBIE]
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Embedlets Group,

It has been 9 month since we started the Embedlets project and in my
opinion it is time to start letting the world know about our existence.
I originally thought that the Enterprise Outpost would be the way that
Embedlets would first be introduced to the world but that plan's
dependency on a graphic wiring tool has slowed it down just a bit.

But the Embedlet Container works now! Even though we still need to work
through a number of issues before Embedlets is ready for commercial use,
like JAPL, I think we have a solid enough of an implementation to start
pursuing noncommercial quality beta projects.

And I think I accidentally stumbled upon a killer 'coming out' project
for Embedlets!

I call it the Global Light Blinker project and the idea was conceived on
the newcim list that I am a member of:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newcim/

These guys want to build an experimental globally distributed CNC light
blinker system and so I have been researching how to do this for the
past 2 weeks.  At JavaOne, Bruce Boyes had convinced me to seriously
start looking into JXTA and, as it turns out, a JXTA/Embedlet container
combination appears to be a killer technology!

Here is a diagram of the light blinker hardware that will be needed for
this
project:

http://tkosan.javadevices.org/misc/embeddedjava/light_blinker_diagram.jp
g


Here is where things get very interesting.  I have spent a large amount
of time during the past couple of weeks looking through the jxta.org
site and reading the jxta documentation and guess what?  None of the
current or proposed JXTA projects have any computer interfacing
component to them at all.  The JXTA group talks a lot about using JXTA
to monitor sensors and control actuators but evidently almost none of
them have the expertise needed to deal with embedded hardware.  But they
seem to really want to...

IMHO, this would be a wonderful opportunity for the Embedlets Group to
propose a partnership with the JXTA group.  We would provide them with
the Embedded Systems expertise that they need and they would provide us
with the peer-to-peer expertise and project ideas that have Embedded
Systems components that we need.

This is something we can start pursuing now without needing the Embedlet
Container to be 100% commercially ready yet.


Here is a proposal for how to proceed with this:

1) Hammer out a feasible hardware design that is similar to the light
blinker diagram given above.

2) Find a company that is willing to build and sell the physical Light
Blinker kits (Serial-to-1-Wire converter and Light Blinker box).

3) Develop a Global Light Blinker joint JXTA/Embedlets project proposal
that we can submit to the JXTA group. (I will volunteer to do this).


What do people think?


In the mean time, the newcim group is very excited about blinking lights
across the globe and I am in the process of writing a distributed
JXTA/Embedlets application and assembling some test hardware to do this.

Ted

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