Contiki 2.3 has just been released. Contiki is an operating system for networked embedded systems that provides low-power IP networking even for the smallest of systems, and includes the world’s smallest IPv6 stack. Among other things the 2.3 release includes a new IPv6 routing architecture, a set of new shell commands, and a Twitter client.
A twitter client?
what could be better than a hello world app? an app that actually does it?
A Twitter client actually makes sense: Contiki was made to run on all kinds of sensors, and now these sensors can automatically and autonomously tweet their sensor data to the people that are interested.
And now you can tweet from your Commodore 64.
I find it rather funny that on a site called OSAlert that news about an actual OS is on page two, while news unrelated to an OS makes the front page.
I’m finding it convenient to simply focus my attention on Page 2. “Page 1” officially means “news that Thom and the gang feel like writing an editorial about”, which sometimes seems constrained to opinions on music and the legal battles surrounding stealing/infringing/liberating/whatever music.
The really interesting stuff is on Page 2, and is refreshingly free of intrusive and annoying “My Take” style supra-posts.
Edited 2009-06-27 22:41 UTC
Funny, but that’s what I’ve been doing more recently as well. I find myself over on Page 2 much more often than previously.
@license_2_blather: I’ve been watching Contiki since about 1.2 or so. It’s really a very interesting project, trying to bring out the best of such limited devices. Surfing the web with IPv6 on an Apple II or C64?? Who’d a thunk it.
Hey, it’s Thom’s site, after all.
At least he has the Page 2 so you don’t have to wade through those articles you don’t like.
Oh, yeah, Contiki — this is such an innovative effort, and a fine rebuke to the exponential code growth that plagues software development today. I thinking it might make the basis of a cool home automation project.
give this man the nobel prize for awesome!