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For Ben NanoNote use cases: Communications device and other purposes...

Zigbee

Another idea would be to network with another protocol, such as Zigbee, however zigbee the protocol may have problems:

  • Zigbee, Linux, and the GPL
  • RFC WIP IEEE 802.15.4 implementation for Linux
  • Some people from OSU are close to having linux zigbee networking working. They are using the TI cc2431: """The TI cc2431 is the zigbee wireless solution. This chip contains an 8bit 8051 microcontroller core and the CC2420 radio core. This is a very flexible chip, and as such the current firmware is a UART interface that Linux will take advantage of. The firmware is based on TI's TIMAC software which provides the MAC layer of the networking stack. Programming of the cc2431 is not supported by current RADIX releases but is planned for the future. The firmware can be built using IAR Embedded Workbench (a evaluation version can be found here).""" At first glance it looks like the firmware code may be free, but require a nonfree compiler to build; I've asked on #oswald if this is correct (freenode irc).
  • Arduino Xbee Shield uses [3] [4] modules.
  • linux-zigbee