Bay Area Maker Faire: May 19-20, 2007, San Mateo Fairgrounds

Maker Faire Bay Area 2007
Making Things Talk with XBee

These microcontroller-based projects--a toxic alert system and a solar voltage meter--communicate using Maxstream's XBee radios, which make low power wireless networking very simple.

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Type: Maker Workbench

Topic(s): Arts

Tags: ITP, microcontrollers, Zigbee, physical computing, electronics, embedded networking

About the Maker(s)

Tom Igoe teaches courses in physical computing and networking at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He explores ways to allow digital technologies to sense and respond to a wider range of human physical expression.

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