Wixel Shield: Make your Arduino Wireless!

Wixels are mainly intended for wireless communication with other Wixels. The Wixel uses the CC2511F32 microcontroller from Texas Instruments, which does not support Bluetooth, 802.15.4, Zigbee, or Wifi. The Wixel is compatible with the CC2500 transceiver, the CC2510Fx family, and the CC2511Fx family of chips from Texas Instruments. All the apps we've written for the Wixel use MSK modulation, but the radio also supports 2-FSK and GFSK modulation. It also supports a wide range of data rates, Manchester encoding, forward error correction, and a host of other options.

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