hello everyone,
I hope you are well and having a great weekend.
I have a question about the nrf24l01 module, i was wondering if it is possible to place it inside a box and make it hidden in a custom robot controller box or would that affect its function ?
Do you have any suggestion on how to mount nrf24l01 in a beautiful way for a wireless interface between a robot and a controller or rc car and controller ?
thanks in advance
It depends on what the box is made from. Plastic, ok. Steel won't work. Dry thin wood, probably ok, and thick wet wood won't work. Generally, the higher the frequency, the more your radio waves will be attenuated (resisted) by dense material. 2.4ghz is quite high in radio terms so the thinner the better.
In short, a plastic project box won't cause a problem.
nanopilot:
It depends on what the box is made from. Plastic, ok. Steel won't work. Dry thin wood, probably ok, and thick wet wood won't work. Generally, the higher the frequency, the more your radio waves will be attenuated (resisted) by dense material. 2.4ghz is quite high in radio terms so the thinner the better.In short, a plastic project box won't cause a problem.
thank you nanopilot for your reply, well the box is a 3d printed PLA with a thickness of 3mm
so as you said no problem with that
firashelou:
thank you nanopilot for your reply, well the box is a 3d printed PLA with a thickness of 3mm
so as you said no problem with that
All these IoT devices are enclosed in plastic boxes and they work. Yeah, you'll be fine. Oh, the jealousy that you have a 3d printer :p. Bear in mind the mounting location though; make sure the antenna has no metallic/carbon/dense obstructions between it and whatever it is connected to for best results.
nanopilot:
All these IoT devices are enclosed in plastic boxes and they work. Yeah, you'll be fine. Oh, the jealousy that you have a 3d printer :p. Bear in mind the mounting location though; make sure the antenna has no metallic/carbon/dense obstructions between it and whatever it is connected to for best results.
hehe well a chinese cheap one can still do some work
you mean the mounting for the box ? because i will be having 4 mountings for the cover to close it
firashelou:
hello everyone,
I hope you are well and having a great weekend.
I have a question about the nrf24l01 module, i was wondering if it is possible to place it inside a box and make it hidden in a custom robot controller box or would that affect its function ?
It could work if it's inside a plastic box. Real testing of it will let you know how well it works. It might work just fine for your purposes.
When you put some kinds of materials in close proximity to an antenna, the antenna's 'usual' electromagnetic field pattern can be altered - either by a little bit, or by a lot. Just depends on kind of material (eg. dielectric constant, conductivity, thickness of material etc).
What you can do is ...... try it out. Eg..... really put an nrf24L01 inside a plastic box and do some communications testing.
firashelou:
you mean the mounting for the box ? because i will be having 4 mountings for the cover to close it
I meant more the physical positioning of it. It doesn't want to be buried in a birds nest of wires, etc.
e.g. I'm currently building an autonomous boat. I've packed everything as low as possible to get the center of gravity as low as possible for ballast, but the wifi module (ESP8266) is mounted as high as I possibly can, out of the way of all the other electronics and noisy DC motors.
nanopilot:
I meant more the physical positioning of it. It doesn't want to be buried in a birds nest of wires, etc.e.g. I'm currently building an autonomous boat. I've packed everything as low as possible to get the center of gravity as low as possible for ballast, but the wifi module (ESP8266) is mounted as high as I possibly can, out of the way of all the other electronics and noisy DC motors.
aha ! can you please post pictures ?