Availability
The first limited-production run of Sun SPOT development kits were released April 2, 2007, after months of delays. This introduction kit includes two Sun SPOT demo sensor boards, a Sun SPOT base station, the software development tools, and a USB cable. The software is compatible with Windows XP, Mac OS X 10.4, and most common Linux distributions. It is unknown if any ZigBee-compliant stack code has been made available but on the CD some demo codes are provided.
The entire project, hardware, operating environment, Java virtual machine, drivers and applications, is available as open source.
After the purchase of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation, the firm continued its development releasing the Release 8 of the hardware (with Sun-Oracle logo) by mid-2011.
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