Competition photos

Here are some photos I took during one of the problem-based sessions I’ve mentioned in the previous post. This was a competition between two groups of students, and the goal was to write a communication protocol that would enable motes to transmit a message across the Computer Science building, from the CrossRail lab to my office. The previous post did not emphasise that the students had to build such a protocol from scratch using only the PHY layer primitives provided by Mote Runner. They had only two hours to analyse the problem, code the protocol, test it, download the code to the motes, decide about their placement and finally deploy them. Not easy. But both groups eventually achieved the goal, but one of them did it first and won a box of chocolates.

Protocol programming and testing




Mote programming





Mote deployment



Winning team