Special Interest Group for Mobile Computing

SigMobile is Association for Computing Machinery's special interest group for mobile computing. We are interested in finding and implementing new ways of using modern portable computers and devices.

Where: ACM Office (Rm 1104) Siebel Center
When: 2:00 PM Saturdays
How To Join: Show up to a meeting, email a sig chair, and/or subscribe to the mailing list.

• This Week: Will be first meeting for SigMobile for the Fall 2003 Semester. We will be discussing new ideas for the year, as well as working on a little PalmOS or PocketPC programming
  
  

chair:
Keerti Bhamidipati

treasurer:
Andy Washington

previous chairs:
Neal Gokli, John Simon, Pavan Tumati

Over the past semester, SIGMobile has been working on several projects for the Computer Science Department. We wrote software for PocketPC 2002 that allows the CS Department take inventory more efficiently than in the past. In fact, inventory started over winter break without a hitch. Also, we are programming software for PalmOS that will keep track of packages in the mailroom. Both of these use Symbol equipment for scanning barcodes and magnetic stripes (on the I-Card).
As always, new members are welcome, and no experience is necessary. We are looking for more people to work on our numerous projects. We've had some ideas in the past that were too time-consuming for our current group of people, but they would make great EOH projects with a few new members.

Embedded Toolkit
Embedded Toolkit 3.0

PocketPC 2002 SDK
PPC2002_SDK.exe

SPS 3000 Roms, Manuals, Drivers, SDKs (Get Embedded Toolkit and PocketPC 2002 SDK first.)
SPS 3000 - Symbol Software Technology Center

Palm OS Programming Bible - There is a copy of this in the ACM office. A digital copy is also available.

SPT 1700 Roms, Manuals, Desktop Tools, etc (Use the Symbol SDK that comes with Codewarrior, not off the website.)
SPT 1700 - Symbol Software Technology Center

For EOH 2003, we helped port SIGNet's Liaison (www.acm.uiuc.edu/signet/liaison) to iPAQs. Liaison is an open source implementation of the Zeroconf protocol, also implemented as part of Apple's Rendezvous. The protocol allows automatic and decentralized network configuration and host/service discovery.

Two years ago, our EOH project involved remote controlled cars, lazer tag guns, and the 802.11 wireless network. We tried to mount laser-tag turrets to the cars, and control them wirelessly for a fun game. Unfortunately, we burned a circuit board on the morning of EOH, and that was the end of that. All in all, it was a good project, and we learned a lot. Even though we didn't have a working proof of concept, quite a few kids asked us when they could buy it in stores.

Our 2001 EOH project was called W.A.V.E (Wireless Audio Verification Engine). It was a system for secure delivery, on demand, of one's licensed music. The project was loosely related to HP's Cooltown technology. We won second place in our category.

We won first place in Inventors Dream competition in 2000 with our BattleGB project. BattleGB was combination of hardware and software allowing two player Gameboy games to be played over the Net.