I don't know what to call this thing but it's an Arduino/LCD/XBee that can display weather or really any type of information that fits on a 4x20 LCD (soon to support paging). It uses XBee packet mode for tx/rx of data and talks to a Java service. Right now it supports current weather/forecast but it can be extended to support other services and also at as a controller to do things like itunes-next-track etc.
Andrew
You've done a great job documenting this project on your blog.
I've been thinking about something similar to this for a while, but I wasn't sure about some of the steps. Your documentation has saved me days of uncertainty. Thanks for making it available!
From a cursory look at your code, it seems that the ZB series modules respond about 10x faster. Does that match your experience?
I haven't done extensive testing but I think both series 1 and 2 will report an ACK delivery in about 50-150ms. This depends on packet size, signal strength etc. Where did you get 10x from?
Andrew