Comments on: Strobit wireless widget project

By: napalm

napalm — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:39:13 +0000

Any updates on this?

By: Thorsten

Thorsten — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:50:36 +0000

Hello,

is 4,39 EUR cheap enough?

http://www.lynx-dev.com/

Look for the RFM12 Module, this is the main RF Part of this design.

Greetings,
Thorsten

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:14:15 +0000

Low cost is what cost? Couldnt see any prices on the wireless module. Im keen on creating some wireless power socket control devices with a little relay/triac in them but cant find a cheap enough wireless controller chip…

By: jkl

jkl — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:01:12 +0000

Wouldn’t it be more easy to build something like the AVR Raven with a pluggable interface for sensors ? (like the arduino, but maybe a smaller formfactor like the boarduino)

The raven already has the software stack to run 6LowPAN, making mesh networking a nobrainer.

By: TJHooker

TJHooker — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:19:53 +0000

I’d use it to spoof hotspots. The range is bad and it uses protocols too bloated for it’s intended applications.

I might not know what I’m talking about, but we’ll never know till someone tries to use it for real time control, or even medium range data gathering.

By: therian

therian — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:19:06 +0000

I find it more amusement to focus on “wirelessly” part of the project

By: Andrew Pollack

Andrew Pollack — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:53:19 +0000

Looks to me like it has the potential for being a really interesting platform to build cool random stuff on. If you wanted to control something wirelessly, this would let you focus more on the “something” and less on the “wirelessly” part of the project.

By: Chris_C

Chris_C — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:38:11 +0000

this is very relevant to the home brew electronics community an embedded device *with* integrated wifi…. very useful

By: M4CGYV3R

M4CGYV3R — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:51:53 +0000

Forgive me if I’m out-of-date here but what does it do? It seems like it’s more of a crammed-together zigbee and PIC/ATMEL chip board. That doesn’t seem hack-worthy unless they actually use it for something. When they have swarming r/c helicopters using these then I’ll applaud.