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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: kaiserreich on Tue, 19 March 2013, 10:34:26

Title: Lower Power RFduino Bluetooth controller.
Post by: kaiserreich on Tue, 19 March 2013, 10:34:26

I just came across this in kickstarter.
Here is the eetimes details.

http://www.eetimes.com/design/microwave-rf-design/4409923/RFduino-joins-open-source-RF-movement

seems like a  pretty nice device to probably implement a compact wireless numpad

Title: Re: Lower Power RFduino Bluetooth controller.
Post by: agodinhost on Tue, 19 March 2013, 16:12:00

RF means radio frequency, so it's radio (this one seems to operate in  the 2.4-GHz band, at least is what it's site says).

It's not a new idea in the arduino world.

There are already a few good solutions out there if you do like RF (see JeeLabs (http://jeelabs.org/), JeeNode USB (http://jeelabs.com/products/jeenode-usb)) but RF is kinda cranky, imo, sometimes you will lost connection depending on outside noise/interference and it will make you crazy ...