Low-cost ZigBee sniffer made with open source hardware
Akiba of Freak Labs wrote in to share how he used one of his open hardware Freakduino boards to create a realtime wireless protocol analyzer for the 802.15.4 standard.
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RC drawing machine decorates a billboard-sized canvas
Tobias Muthesius of Paris, France sent in this installation by French interactive designers Lab212 designed for Morocco’s FICAM animation festival. It was hard for me to scrounge up technical details but it looks like an Arduino and XBee were involved.
Automatic wireless drink mixer
The Automatic wireless drink mixer is a final project for a group from the University of Washington’s Electrical Engineering department (ee478). There’s a wireless touchpad interface that talks to the main unit via xbee, an RFID cup interface that keeps track of what you drink, and the whole thing is controlled by a PIC32.
Gameboy as robot remote control
Today I checked in with Make: Labs to see what our faithful interns are working on, and Kris Magri showed me the setup pictured above. A while back she was given a Tomy i-Sobot and tasked with hacking it. The thing she liked least about the i-Sobot is how complicated and clunky the remote control […]
How-To: Use XBees for wireless MIDI
Adafruit Industries posted a rather sweet tutorial on using XBee modules as a wireless MIDI bridge. In the video above, Limor demonstrates the ‘bees buzzing serial data at a distance of about 50 feet. The default latency between sender and receiver comes in at around 6.0 milliseconds and can even be improved a bit with […]
Christian Science Monitor on wireless sensor networks
(image of solar-powered 802.15.4 node from Tom Igoe’s Making Things Talk) The Christian Science Monitor has an article on wireless sensor networks being used to sense and gather data from the environment: The hand-sized yellow objects poking up among the lush canopies at Camalie Vineyards aren’t a new variety of monster grape. They’re electronic devices […]
Tom Igoe’s monkey tracking adventures
Tom Igoe, author of Making Things Talk, is in the rainforest in eastern Ecuador, applying his sensor and embedded hacking skills to tracking monkeys (from Part 4 of his adventure postings): This morning, Kevin and Tony and I went to look for titi monkeys. We didn’t find any, but we did manage to get lost, […]
