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Archive for June, 2009

Zigbee info from TI (Texas Instruments)

Monday, June 15th, 2009

As we are cranking on getting the basics set around the dev platform etc, we will try to do a couple of updates a week with hopefully interesting info around Zigbee. We got a really good comment on our post about “where do you start with Zigbee”. It came from Brian Blum at TI. There was [...]

The real missing Link

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

In a previous post where we tried out the BeeKit, one of the major issues we had was to get the Digi 1011 patch (code base) to work. The patch is made to be installed on an “old” BeeKit and not the new “BeeKit Wireless Connectivity ToolKit REV 1.5″.
We said in order to get that [...]

Review: Zigbee Wireless Networking

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

We have now read “Zigbee Wireless Networking” by Drew Gislason. This is the book that together with “Zigbee Wireless Networks and Transceivers” gets the best reviews. After reading the book we do agree that this is a really good book, well structured and as Dr Shahin Farahani who wrote “Zigbee Wireless Networks and Transceivers” it shows that Drew [...]

Off Topic: Free Kindle books!

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

This doesn’t really have anything to do with The ZigBee Project, but most of us here are avid book readers and have jumped on the Kindle bandwagon. To my great delight, I discovered a bunch of books for the Kindle over at Amazon are free!
Some great free fiction:

Searching for “Public Domain Books” on the Kindle store [...]