whack-a-mole

Introduction

This is a whack a mole game based on tinyOS and python game. In this project, four telosb mote are used as moles, one ppp router is used as controller. The game is controlled by a python game, which is used to receive the data from the telosb mote and display the result as a python game.

The demo of this project can be checked in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAMDzTGoMbw&spfreload=10

##Hardware : TelosB

This project based on the telosb mote which is a Low Power Wireless Sensor Module, TelosB:

(TPR2400 Datasheet can be found here : http://www.willow.co.uk/TelosB_Datasheet.pdf )

• IEEE 802.15.4 compliant
• 250 kbps, High Data Rate Radio
• TI MSP430 microcontroller with 10kB RAM
• Integrated onboard antenna
• Data collection and programming via USB
• Open-source operating system
• Optional integrated temperature and humidity sensor
• Developed and published to the research community by UC Berkeley

Sofeware : Tiny OS

TinyOS is a free and open source software component-based operating system and platform targeting wireless sensor networks (WSNs). TinyOS is an embedded operating system written in the nesC programming language as a set of cooperating tasks and processes. It is intended to be incorporated into smartdust. TinyOS started as a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley in co-operation with Intel Research and Crossbow Technology, and has since grown to be an international consortium, the TinyOS Alliance.

Details can be found on wiki :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyOS

Tutorial of the Tiny OS : https://github.com/tinyos/tinyos-main

Basic idea of this project

With this project, we want to achieve four functions to practice the Tiny OS with the telosB mote:

• Implementing a random timer to make the mote shining randomly;
• Synchronizing the settings with multicast. By this function,every time we change the settings of one mote, the ohter mote will be Synchronized by multicast;
• Achieveing the Self-adaptive function by sending request to other mote when booting to get the systems's settings;
• Using the pygame to display the results. Each mote will broadcast their data to ppp router, we implement a pygame script to display the data from the motes as a funny game.

All of the multicast and broadcast is using UDP