Arduino ZIg Bee M4L

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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Hi Everyone!

I would ask you kindly help.

I need to control the LEDs at a distance (Posts on a musician dress) by Max4Life connected to Arduino protocol Zig Bee.

What I Need?

Therefore

The LEDs that we'll use are mono chromatic Leds, but ultra bright. They will want to use a LED Matrix - Serial Interface, so totally we have maybe 40 leds (such as SparkFun Electronics)
at most it will be 2.

But to start I could still do the tests on simple monochromatic LED.

Around I found the Bluetooth version of the Arduino BT esssendo but Does it goeS slower than the ZigBee protocol? correct me if I'm wrong. :wink:
Otherwise, there is support for the platform Arduino Xbee (SparkFun Electronics) to allow a wireless Arduino to communicate with ZigBee protocol.

Finally the Lilypad http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardLilyPad as microcontroller sewing on the dress , which acts as a data receiver right?

To start testing what kind of materials would be nice?

Thank you very much
is very important :slight_smile:

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If you go with the LilyPad, there is an XBee shield to go with it.
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8937

If Max4Life is able to output serial data, the PC that it is running on can use one of these:

with a XBee aboard.

Proper configuration of the Series 1 XBees, using X-CTU from digi.com, and the PC and the dress will be happily chatting away in minutes.

I don't see a bluetooth compatible LilyPad on Sparkfun's site, so I don't think I'd go that route.

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I make a board that combines an Arduino compatible design and an XBee --
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You would still need to add the high current LED circuitry.

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Thanks a lot.

If i need question, I will get know.

:slight_smile: