Our brand new XBee Examples project site just went live! Check out the first tutorials that Matt Richardson and I’ve published on Digi’s instructional library site: examples.digi.com. Right now I’ve got a big pile of different sensors, lights, motors, scent emitters and more on my desk. We’re going to demonstrate XBee hookups for ’em all, then show how they […]
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Yesterday Jordan Husney, Jared Hofhiens, Liz Presson and I hosted the first-ever online XBee Knowledge Forum. We talked about XBee radio history, features, projects and plans. Kicking yourself that you missed it? You can still watch the magic right now on video.
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Jordan Husney and I created an electrically-operated scale model garage to demonstrate the XBee-iDigi Garage Door Opener for one of the projects we’ll be featuring at the Digi booth for Bay Area Maker Faire 2012 this weekend. It’s an example of building the “12,000-Mile Universal remote” project from Make Vol. 30. With this project you
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Say hello to Troy and Abed! They’re Digi International’s brand-new XBee-enabled SumoBots and they’re ready to begin training for their debut at Bay Area Maker Faire 2012. They’ll be battling it out in the Digi booth May 19th and 20th, so prepare yourself for a wireless robotic sumo showdown! Here’s a first look: Thanks to
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There’s a terrific new article (login required) in New Scientist featuring my friend and colleague Ted Hayes. Back in 2009, Ted created an Internet-enabled bubble gun in the Networked Objects class I taught at ITP. His Bubble Gun announces incoming email with a stream of soapy spheres. It’s a whimsical demonstration of how simple devices can
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A new configuration utility for Digi International’s XBee radios is available for Macintosh, Windows and Linux platforms from Moltosenso in Italy, and it’s free. According to their web site, Moltosenso Network Manager™ IRON enables the following tasks: Download it now and let us know what you think!
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I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area in San Mateo, California on May 19th and 20th with Digi International. We’ll be showing off a neat XBee and iDigi project, one that’s featured in the next issue of MAKE Magazine. More about that project soon… Meantime, here’s a video about Maker Faire:
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Brian Jepson used the XBee Internet Gateway running on a Digi ConnectPort to create a distributed voting system to compile feedback from a wine tasting event at O’Reilly Media’s Strata big data conference in Santa Clara, California. The WineShade manages all the data acquisition and display for Coco Krumme‘s Data Crush: Where Wine and Data Meet. “This new event at Strata
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