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Arduino XBee sensor (temperature, tilt, compass, and ambient light)

March 17, 2009 – 7:52 pm

I finally put together an Arduino Pro Mini, the XBee, the MMA7260Q, the HMC6352, the TEMT6000 and the DS1620.
This is how it looks like on the prototyping board (ugly, I know)
Hopefully it would look better when I move it to the PCB. But before doing that I need to get the battery power set up. [...]

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Upgrading Xbee Series 2 (XbeeShield) to Xbee ZB with Arduino

September 6, 2008 – 9:59 am

As stated in this digi page is possible to upgrade/convert a Xbee Series 2.5 to a Xbee ZB (with full standard Zigbee capabilities). Xbee Series 2.5 is just another name for the forme Series 2, so the upgrade procedure is exactly the same.
The procedure if fairly straighforward

Remove ATmega168 from Arduino board
Insert XbeeShield into [...]

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Wireless Power Meters

July 18, 2008 – 6:49 pm

I’ve been trying to find power meters for home. My criteria is that it has to support several sensors (because I want to know how much energy my computer and home cinema is spending) and it has to be wireless (because it more convinient this way). After researching a couple of hours, it doesn’t lok [...]

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