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Re: wireless communication
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Tue, 2 Mar 1999 19:09:15 GMT
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Colin A. Reed <aleph@alumni.%AvoidSpam%caltech.edu>
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for RF communications, I recommend Linx Technologies
http://www.linxtechnologies.com/ They sell seperate transmitters,
receivers, and antennas. For two-way communication, you would need two
pairs, so the price is around $30 for a bidirectional link. They have
speed ranges from 5kbps to 50kbps. I've used their LC parts with the
helical antennas and the work great. The only problem is that they seem
to want you to buy the eval kit for a particular part before they will
sell you additional units, and that's pretty expensive and pretty
useless. The parts are all self contained with the only RF pin being the
antenna, so as long as you mount the antenna close by, you don't need to
worry about special design. I mounted the LCs (which are surface mount)
on a pc board, but for the other parts, the datalines should be able to
handle wirewrapping, though I would solder in the power and antenna
connections and put a bypass cap on the power. You don't wont to recieve
"RF" signals from your microcontroller.
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Jonathan Swaby wrote:
> After reading some of the discussions about wireless communications, I
> remembered an article from Nuts and Volts ( http://www.nutsvolts.com ) May
> 1998. The title of the article is "Naked Data", Explore the power of
> wireless data communications using inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware. The
> article was written by Ryan Sheldon (http://members.aol.com/ncdcat). The
> article discusses using RF and IR as a 1200bps serial data link. The
> article shows schematics for some of the IR devices. The RF devices used
> are from MING (http://www.ming-micro.com/). Digi-Key carries their
> products, and the cost for a transmitter and receiver total less that
> 25.00. I have not tried the products but it seems like a good place to
> start experimenting. I know 1200Bps is not very fast, but some users might
> find that data rate acceptable. Also, this would be a one-way link.
>
>
> Jonathan Swaby
> Computer Services Specialist IV
> Student Affairs
> Georgia Institute
> of Technology
>
> 404-894-5889
>
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