Moving Forward with Arduino – Chapter 14 – XBee introduction
Learn how to use XBee wireless data transceivers with Arduino.
This is part of a series originally titled “Getting Started with
Arduino!” by John Boxall – A tutorial on the Arduino universe.
The first chapter is here, the complete series is detailed here.
We will examine the Series 1 XBee wireless data transceivers
from Digi in the USA. Although in the past we have experimented
with the inexpensive 315MHz transmit/receive pair modules
(chapter 11), they have been somewhat low in range and slow with
data transmission. The XBee system changes this for the better.
First of all, what is an Xbee module? It is a very small piece
of hardware that can connect wirelessly with another using the
Zigbee communication protocols. There are many different models,
including aerial types and power outputs. In this tutorial we’re
using Series One XBees. From Wikipedia, Zigbee is: ZigBee is a
specification for a suite of high level communication protocols
using small,