I have lost my way in the world of software and its now time to brush the dust off my interest in building hardware
In this post I bring together three previous projects into a finished solar-powered wireless sensor network for the garden shed — gateway, end node, and battery monitor, talking over XBee. It's a long one, covering the design decisions and lessons learned, plus a technique I picked up from a KiCon 2024 talk: using KiCad to … Continue reading Wrapping up the Remote Power Sensor
Remote sensors are only one component of a much larger system. If the information they collect is to land on the internet somewhere, then there needs to be some type of bridge or gateway. In this post I take a look at using Test Driven Development (TDD) to create a simple gateway node. It is … Continue reading Creating a Gateway Node using XBee and Test Driven Development
It has always been on my list to try a project with some wireless communication. I now have a project in mind but there are a few things to sort out first. I have not worked with any wireless at the embedded hardware level. This is not inteded to be any instructional post but my … Continue reading An Encounter with XBee
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