[Coco] Xbee wireless module for the wireless pak?

[Brian Blake]

My Christmas light controller has an X-Bee on it - cost for that one is $25
from Mouser I think.... The adapter cards usually run around $10.

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com> wrote:

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> Here's a wireless modem module that looks to be pin compatible with the
> EB301's bottom row.  In fact, they show the same USB cable hooked to it that
> A7 used to show hooked to the EB301.  The pins match and the Xbee module is
> 5v tolerant if I'm reading the page right.
>
> http://www.ladyada.net/make/xbee/
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> I'll have to find the measurements first to see if it will fit in the
> wireless pak case and find out how the PC picks up the signal and maps to a
> COM port.  The AT command set stuff should be as simple as the EB301's
> similar command set, meaning that I can add support in the CoCoNet ROM with
> no trouble at all.  Basically all the EB301 code does is ask for the
> broadcasted bluetooth addresses and connects to the first one in the list.
>  If the Xbee module operates in a similar fashion, this could be the
> continuation of the wireless paks.
>
> P.S. I haven't seen a price tag yet.
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