TelosB

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When using this board with RIOT, set the BOARD variable to telosb in your Makefile. If you follow the standard RIOT project structure, your Makefile should look like this:

# name of your application
APPLICATION = hello-world

# Change this to your board if you want to build for a different board
BOARD ?= telosb

# This has to be the absolute path to the RIOT base directory:
RIOTBASE ?= $(CURDIR)/RIOT

include $(RIOTBASE)/Makefile.include

Support for the TelosB board

MCU

MCU	TI MSP430F1611
Family	MSP430
Vendor	Texas Instruments
Package	64 QFN
RAM	10 KiB
Flash	48 KiB
Frequency	8 MHz
FPU	no
Timers	2 (2 × 16 bit)
ADCs	1 × 8 channel 12-bit
UARTs	2
SPIs	2
I2Cs	1
Vcc	2.0V - 3.6V
Datasheet (Board)	Tmote Sky / TelosB Datasheet
Datasheet (MCU)	Datasheet
User Guide (MCU)	User Guide

Radio

RF Chip	Texas Instruments® CC2420
Frequency Band	2.4GHz ~ 2.485GHz
Standard compliance	IEEE 802.15.4 compliant
Receive Sensitivity	-95 dBm typical
Transfer Rate	250 Kbps
RF Power	-25 dBm ~ 0 dBm
Range	~120 m (outdoor), 20 ~ 30 m (indoor)
Current Draw	RX: 18.8 mA TX: 17.4 mA Sleep mode: 1 μA
RF Power Supply	2.1 V ~ 3.6 V
Antenna	Dipole Antenna / PCB Antenna
Datasheet	Datasheet

Flashing RIOT

Flashing RIOT on the TelosB is quite straight forward, just connect your board using the USB connector to your host computer and type:

make flash

This should take care of everything!

Using the shell

The shell is using the UART interface of the TelosB at 9600 baud.