During my vacation i’m playing around with the SunSPOT’s from Sun Microsystems which are fantastic little gadgets. (Please find more information about them here.)
I attached a combined temperature/humidity sensor to one of my spots and used xmpp protocol (with smack library) to communicate with my SunSPOT host application from wherever I am.
To visualize the measured values I needed something sexy and because there was nothing ready to go I created two little „instruments“ that I would like to share with you.
And here they are:
First a gauge:
Second Java Swing component is a display (yes I know it’s inspired by Apples iTunes):
Third custom Swing component a combination of the display with a led panel:
I think I’ll have to do some work at the 3d-effect of the rounded rectangle but as a first prototype they looked ok to me.
You can find my presentation on custom Swing components here, the Netbeans project for the components in the article can be downloaded here: Instruments, the Netbeans project for the application from the slides is here: SD.zip
If you are interested, please leave a comment…