Hello ! What is the most inexpensive, yet stable robust and relatively fast micro-controller + wireless setup? I have been asking this question to myself for way too long... Now, I'm curious of your experiences in the different flavors available.. In my specific situation talking…

Where to start? Ok, I would say first off, that the question is between X-bee and Bluetooth. Lets get through the obvious (much of which was covered above --and-- in no particular order) (It can be assumed that I am talking about a “BlueSmirf”) Xbee requires breakout boards t…

I disagree with Chris’ I disagree with Chris’ limitied list of solutions. I know I’ll catch hell for this, but don’t count the msp430 solution out…I noted that you had a couple on there, but I think the one I mention below might be closer to your needs. The msp430 solution is a …

as far as price goes you as far as price goes you have a lot more room to save on wireless than on a microcontroller, so I think any micro with a hardware serial port in conjuction with a cheap bluetooth module with serial port profile is a winner! I haven’t used the linked $10…

Awesome Find Rogue ! That’s what was frustrating me… SparkFun has had Smirfs for ages but they are always @ $40 to $50 a unit… seemed frustrating when the uC is less than half that price. So now we are looking at : 115K Serial with no Servo contention, Computer->Robot with a BBB…

BT all the way ! Thanks for all the information CTC and advice. I have successfully avoided Xbees because of their price and voltage requirements. I am interested in swarming, but all the information will either be directed by the computer or routed from one robot through the c…

Lower still ! And here is SMD BT for $6.60 - although it looks as if default setting would need to be re-programmed if you want 115K So I could print my own interface to plug into a msp 430, and that would be ~ $10 per (uC + BT) !! $40 for a 4 bot swarm (not including servos, w…

Next BT Question It says these modules have password 1234 … which is fine, but what about BT identifiers? Do they all come with unique IDs like ether MACs? or can the id’s be programmed?

MAC’s Everyone gets their own mac address. I will do some tests but I am pretty sure they will just show up as different com ports and thus, eclipse or processing would simply run multiple serial lines. --one for each unit.

you typically can’t you typically can’t reprogram a bluetooth MAC address, but they should be different. on the other hand you can likely change the module name which shows up during a search, but that feature is module dependent.

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GroG August 28, 2011, 9:45am 6

You have a point voodoo

But its not BT so - the computer would need a tranciever too no?

However, I bought 4 msp430s

So maybe the least expensive robust solution is :

$5 msp430 + Rogue’s Cheap BT find $10 = $15 per unit (woo hoo)

Seems a very “Swarmable” price