Posted by Jack Crossfire on February 13, 2009 at 12:30am
These are basically 300ft XBee's for $10. They have no UART, only SPI. They don't have the GPIO functions of XBee's. They're the same size as XBee's. The idea is to bring the data processing of a really powerful computer on the ground to ever smaller, cheaper aircraft with these high speed radios.MicrochipHopefully Microchip is following the Sparkfun model of selling prototyped versions of its chips & not running short batches for reference designs.
Maybe these don't suck, but for now I'm still in the "cheap serial 2.4GHz radios are more trouble than they are worth" camp. High error rates, random firmware lockups, terrible full duplex behavior, constant interference from consumer devices, etc.
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