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Simple-to-use ZigBee Hardware

Posted by timothy on from the what's-a-zigbee-you-ask dept.

An anonymous reader submits "I thought this was interesting. Up till now, ZigBee was only available as a chipset or some rudimentary modules. Now regular schmucks like me that don't want to mess with a soldering iron can use ZigBee and see if it sucks or not. These radios have a range of almost a mile and cost less than $100. Not bad since nobody else seems to offer anything like this (yet). Now I can get my laptop to communicate with some of my robotics projects without an RS-232 umbilical cord." (WikiPedia's page on ZigBee a is a good way to figure out whether this is interesting to you; in short, a low-power, medium-range radio spec for all sorts of interesting uses.)

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  1. Because Someone Had To Say It by Tackhead · · Score: 2, Funny
    > Now regular schmucks like me that don't want to mess with a soldering iron can use ZigBee and see if it sucks or not.

    "No soldering required!"
    What you say?
    "$100!"
    At that price, even if I don't know what I doing, move ZigBee!

  2. Re:Let me be the first to say... by maelstrom · · Score: 2, Funny

    You must be new here.

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    The more you know, the less you understand.