Possibly a cheap way to hook up a xbee??!!

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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alright so i was looking around and i found this:

and this:

ok so now i was wondering if this setup will work for an arduino to arduino communication:

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thank you and let me know this will be way cheaper then anything elts if it does work

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Yes this will work for arduino to arduino communication.

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so ill have to do is just hook to the xbee up and upload code is that it?

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Pretty much. There are cheaper ways to do it but this is pretty good and doesn't really involve much work at all.

Mowcius

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I have built that design on protoboard myself (because I am a cheap bastard), it works well.

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so now i see in the picure that the xbee is conected to power the digital 2,3 not tx, and rx y?

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so now i see in the picure that the xbee is conected to power the digital 2,3 not tx, and rx y?

So as to not interfere with the ability to upload sketches to the Arduino. NewSoftSerial is then used to read from/write to the XBee.