I want to dive in the great world of wireless chips, and I’ll be doing reviews and post code samples about common chips, but for now we play the waiting game as everything comes from China. It shouldn’t be too long though, as it’s already been shipped and it’s gone through EMS instead of the very slow China Post.
This is just a quick update to say I’ll be very excited to test all these ~$1 chips. Among them, we will review three different boards based on the NRF24L01, some of them costing as low as $0.30 (in comparison, SparkFun has a board for $19.95, and that’s before shipping!)
I also intend to work with the 315M receiver / trasmitter module, also both around the $1 mark. Stay tuned!
2 thoughts on “Arduino wireless projects coming soon!”
Did you ever get a chance to experiment with the NRF24L01 (or its newer drop-in replacement, the NRF24L01+)? I’m particularly interested in how easy they are to interface to Arduino compatibles, and whether the library support is any good. I’m also wondering if it’s possible to do point-to-multipoint with these cheap breakouts.
Well as you can see from my other posts I moved a bit away to do other things but you are right I should give these breakouts a proper review, especially since I’ve heard only good things about them.
Seems like a good week-end side project. The library support should be no problem; RadioHead is very mature –see http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/arduino/RadioHead/classRH__NRF24.html.