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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. Move Zig ... by b4stard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... for great justice !!!!!!!!

  2. Interested in microwave experimentation? by leighklotz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Interested in microwave experimentation and RF hacking?
    Get a ham license and gain legal, high-power access to 900Mhz, 1.2 GHz, 2.3 GHz, 2.4Ghz, 3.4 GHz, 5.6 GHz, 10 GHz, 24 Ghz, 47 GHz, 75 GHz, 120 GHz, 142 GHZ, 241 GHz, and 300 Ghz and up. A guy nearby managed to be the first person to bounce a 24 GHz signal off the moon! Or check out one of the various local organizations (I randomly chose San Bernadino Microwave Society) for more info.

    No morse code test required, and see Technician Test for practice test online.

  3. san dimas high school football rules by dynamo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ZigBee Piggy,
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