Fwd: How to buy a SunSPOT in The World ?

[Evgeny Sinelnikov]

Здравствуйте,

поскольку неоднократно возникал вопрос о стоимости SunSpot'ов и возможности их приобретения, я пересылаю обсуждение на эту тему.

Для России, на странице продукта указана следующая информация:

EU/Russia

€630.00 (£440.00, RUB 20,310.00) plus applicable

tax and shipping

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Subject: Re: How to buy a SunSPOT in The World ?
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From: Robert Reagan <Robert...@sun.com>
Date: 2010/2/15
To: Roger Meike <Roger...@sun.com>
Cc: Silveira Neto <Jose...@sun.com>, Jay Mahadeokar <Jay...@sun.com>, Alan Vargas <Alan...@sun.com>, ambassador...@sun.com

Are Sun Spots available for sale anywhere ?

Regards,
Robert


Roger Meike wrote:

I would LOVE to be able to provide this, but it comes down to one ugly, nasty, horrible word.... budget.

I'm trying hard to come up with some creative ways to get other companies interested in building and selling Sun SPOTs in order to help with this problem.  If you have any connections, let me know.  In the end, Sun doesn't do so well with small devices like Sun SPOTs.  We want to design HW & SW, but we'd love to have someone else build and sell it.

-r

On Mar 7, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Silveira Neto wrote:

Jay Mahadeokar escreveu:

Hi Silveria.

The hardware of the Sun SPOTs is fully open source and the spots-hardware project is very modularized with complete details about each component of the Sun SPOTs like eSPOT main board, the edemo add-on board, prototyping boards as well as break-out boards for SPOTs.  Even the PCB designs and the Billl of materials are completely specified.

So, if you really want to make to have a mini spot that will be a customized subset, of the main SPOT, try and explore the project and even make your own!

Maybe. I'm learning how to produce my owns PCBs at home. =)
Would be great a home build Sun SPOT. But for that still a special version needed to be developed with affordable component prices and a easy PCB model. As example, soldering a Atmel ARM920T core processor doesn't seen to be a easy task.

Would be great to me and my projects have an little Java programmable hardware device that I could control motors and read sensors.

(I would love to go for it if I had the necessary know how, but I am from Computer Science field and know very little of hardware) I have tried to go through the project and started getting some part of it. Believe me... the technology is amazing!

Check out following projects:

https://spots.dev.java.net/
https://spots-hardware.dev.java.net/
https://spots-libraries.dev.java.net/

Regards,
Jay Mahadeokar
Sun Campus Ambassador,
SRKNEC, Nagpur.

Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/jaysblog/


Silveira Neto wrote:

It's a little bit frustrating here, year by year we are learning more and doing speakings and presentations about Sun SPOT technologies but can't put hands on it.

Would be great a version of Sun SPOT without all resources (no radio) and sensors, that could be legally available on Brazil/Latin America with more accessible prices. A Mini Sun SPOT. =)

Roger Meike escreveu:

I'm sorry that Sun SPOTs aren't available everywhere.  The situation is that Sun SPOTs have radios and thus require approval by a countries government before they can be legally sold or operated there.  That approval requires special testing, paper work and fees.  Because Sun SPOTs are a Sun Labs project (ie done by a bunch of researchers on a minimal budget), we don't have budget to get approvals for every country that we'd like.  The progress on getting more countries will be slow until we have more budget.

Sorry,

-roger


On Mar 3, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Alan Vargas wrote:

Hello everyone,

Somebody knows How to buy a SunSPOT in Latinamerica? And if exists some discounts for this? I read the page of SunSPOT but doesn't exists orders shipments to Mexico or any country of Latinamerica.

What Can I do? Or Who is the right person for talk about this?

Greetings!
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Email Alan...@Sun.COM

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From: sylvain duloutre <Sylvain...@sun.com>
Date: 2010/2/15
To: Robert...@sun.com
Cc: Roger Meike <Roger...@sun.com>, Silveira Neto <Jose...@sun.com>, Jay Mahadeokar <Jay...@sun.com>, Alan Vargas <Alan...@sun.com>, ambassador...@sun.com

Le 15/02/2010 17:02, Robert Reagan a écrit : try http://www.sunspotworld.com/products/index.html
seems to be available for US/Canada.

Regards
-Sylvain

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