Great article in this month's Technology Review about extremely small sensors with radio transceivers arranged in an ad-hoc network. I did some additional Googling and read about the 'motes' and TinyOS being developed at Berkeley. Anyone besides me seeing the frightening analogy between these and the "Larsen Localizers" in Vernor Vinge's novel "Fire Upon the Deep"?
I'm very impressed with the technology and it looks like one could experiment for very little cash - only some work with a soldering iron and fairly basic microcontroller and FPGA programming skills are required.
Posted by cbrown at July 31, 2003 11:16 PM