{"id":126,"date":"2007-10-31T09:04:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T14:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tigoe.net\/pcomp\/code\/category\/circuits\/xbee\/126"},"modified":"2008-01-21T21:29:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T02:29:31","slug":"xbee-to-usb-modules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/pcomp\/code\/XBee\/126\/","title":{"rendered":"XBee to USB modules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.droids.it\">Droids.it <\/a>has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droids.it\/990_001.html\">breakout board<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxstream.net\">XBee radios<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.droids.it\/990_002.html\">USB-to-Xbee board<\/a> available.<\/p>\n<p>The USB board is nice, because in addition to having a built-in 5V-to-3.3V regulator and indicator LEDs, it&#8217;s got all the pins of the XBee broken out on the side of the board.  Makes development of XBee projects easier.<\/p>\n<p>The breakout board also has its own regulator on board, making it easy to interface with a 5V project. It&#8217;s also got the serial pins broken out to a single row,  making it easy to mount on the side of a breadboard.<\/p>\n<p>The prices on both are reasonable for the European market.  As the US dollar continues to sink, they&#8217;re a bit pricier for US customers, but still reasonable, for now.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Rob Faludi and Jeff LeBlanc for testing help, and to Luigi Carnevale for supplying sample boards.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/electronics\" rel=\"tag\">electronics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/networked objects\" rel=\"tag\">networked objects<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/networks\" rel=\"tag\">networks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USB board is nice, because in addition to having a built-in 5V-to-3.3V regulator and indicator LEDs, it&#8217;s got all the pins of the XBee broken out on the side of the board&#8230;.  As the US dollar continues to sink, they&#8217;re a bit pricier for US customers, but still reasonable, for now.Thanks to Rob Faludi and Jeff LeBlanc for testing help, and to Luigi Carnevale for supplying sample boards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-circuits","category-XBee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/pcomp\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/pcomp\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/pcomp\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/pcomp\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/pcomp\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/pcomp\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/pcomp\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/pcomp\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/pcomp\/code\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}