Consulting before purchase - Microchip wireless system

electroRF · Feb 21, 2013

Hi,
I'm interested in setting two points which will communicate wireless via Zigbee.

first point:
1. **broken link removed** + MRF24J40MA PICTail™/PICTail Plus

Second point:
2.
Well, I'm struggling to find a simple board, with 24F Microchip PIC and Zigbee transceiver.
I'm gonna make the order from Digikey, and didn't find anything I can use.
Could you please support me on that? any idea?

Thanks a lot!

dharmender1 · Feb 21, 2013

upper answer may be best for this query .

electroRF · Feb 21, 2013

Hi D, Thanks.
I cannot afford purchasing two systems of Explorer 16 + MRF24J40MA, only because the Explorer 16 costs 100$.
I'd like the second unit to be much simpler, you see?

Therefore, I'm looking for some simple solution for the Second unit

Ian Rogers · Feb 22, 2013

Have you selected a zigbee unit?.... Have you examined Xbee? The breakout boards from sparkfun are really cheap https://www.sparkfun.com/categories/16?page=2

I used the Xbee (Zigbee mesh ) and had great results.... As you use the uart ANY dev board will get you up and running...

electroRF · Feb 22, 2013

i Ian,
Thanks!

Ian Rogers said:
Have you selected a zigbee unit?.... Have you examined Xbee? The breakout boards from sparkfun are really cheap https://www.sparkfun.com/categories/16?page=2

Should a XBEE unit connect with the Zigbee MRF24J40MA?

I used the Xbee (Zigbee mesh ) and had great results....

Should a XBEE unit connect with the Zigbee MRF24J40MA?

Ian Rogers said:
As you use the uart ANY dev board will get you up and running...

Could you please recommend on a Microchip 24F Dev board, that will connect to the XBEE unit?

Ian Rogers · Feb 22, 2013

Could you please recommend on a Microchip 24F Dev board, that will connect to the XBEE unit?

Its a serial connection!!! two wires.... You can connect to ANY micro controller..

electroRF · Feb 22, 2013

I see, thanks Ian!

I think I'll pay the extra cash and buy 2x [Explorer 8 Development Board + MRF24J40MA PICTail™/PICTail Plus]

Do you see any reason to move to 16-bit PIC (as 24F in Explorer 16) rather than 8-bit (as 18F in Explorer 8)?

Ian Rogers · Feb 22, 2013

No... I was going to, but the pic32 is way better than the pic24... Just as cheap... You can get a CHIPKIT UNO32 for less than £20..

https://www.google.co.uk/shopping/p...a=X&ei=VsonUY6NHvSW0QXNooH4Dw&ved=0CEUQ8wIwAA

Then just buy a Xbee shield.. https://proto-pic.co.uk/xbee-shield-new/

The chipkit uno32 is a brilliant little dev board if you remove the "Arduino compatible bootloader" and run it from PICKIT3 ( there's a header on the board )

Job done...

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