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Another ZigBee module
Another ZigBee module
Posted Dec 6, 2007 7:55 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)Parent article: The SquidBee open sensor network
One particularly interesting module is at http://www.meshnetics.com/zigbee-modules/amp/ -- all the hardware you'll ever need (including the microcontroller and a 1-wire interface, yay!) right on board, and the (lower-level parts of) the networking stack are open source. ... and the price seems right too. I can't wait to start playing with that. Disclaimer: I've found that piece of hardware today, so no actual experience with it yet.
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Too bad
Posted Dec 6, 2007 15:49 UTC (Thu) by gmaxwell (subscriber, #30048) [Link]
Too bad the SquidBee Motes aren't that inexpensive. At 130euro they are perhaps a little too costly for the sort of very dense deployment which would make them interesting (and which is needed given their limited range).
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Posted Dec 8, 2007 12:48 UTC (Sat) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]
To be fair, the MeshNetics module is very new and (apparently) not yet available in production quantities; the XBee OEM module they use just doesn't have that many features. So they need more extra hardware. Which needs to be assembled, tested, ... I'd hazard that building your own SquidBee nodes would be a tad cheaper than €130.