Objective

This group will attempt to understand and develop a simple device driver for a bluetooth network.

Introduction

This class project involves a number of other groups developing each part of a communication pipeline, using a metaphor of the movie Red Planet as motivation, involving the transmission of a message from the Command Center on Earth to an old beat down Russian Spaceship located on planet Mars, which will save the life of an astronaut if the message can get through. Our part in this elaborated metaphor is the communication between the NASA Command Center in Houston with the mother ship, located on Mars' Orbit.

To test the device driver this group will attempt to install a linux distribution on a xbox game console that will represent the Mother Ship, and an old Toshiba Notebook also running a distribution of linux , representing the command center . Although the Toshiba might be changed later to a newer Notebook, the essence still remains the same.

The first step is to install a distribution of linux on a xbox game console. After that the next step is to understand what is the bluetooth stack protocol and what implementation are available. Understanding those protocols is fundamental to the learning process since our group lacks device driver expertise*.

However in all developing processes problems appear. And to clarify our developing process we will create a list of problems that appeared during the various phases of this project, and what solution we chose for the moment.

*This approach has changed see why here.