 The demo board This is the demo which was presented at Embedded World 2007.The demo acquires angle and distance from a compass and a ultrasound receiver, sending them to a remote system using an XBee module connected through UART. On the PC side, then, a GTK graphical application (not available for download) displays the data in a polar plot. Board schematics, PCB and software available as a template under ERIKA Enterprise.
Authors- Mauro Marinoni (ReTiS Lab Scuola Superiore S. Anna)
- Michael Trimarchi, Claudio Scordino (Evidence Srl)
SoftwareThe software is an EE application which acquires information from a compass and a ultrasound receiver, sending them to a remote system using an XBee module. The application is distributed with ERIKA Enterprise since version 1.4.0, and shows how simple is the implemenattion of a Zigbee-serial gateway which interfaces SPI/I2C peripherals with a dsPIC. HardwareThis is the list of hardware components needed to reproduce the demo: - FLEX board (light or full)
- home made PCB (Eagle design and schematics available in the template);
- a few resistences and connectors
- a ZigBee modem: XBee from MaxSream;
- a compass: CMPS03;
- an ultrasound sensor: SRF10;
- on the PC side, an XBee module with the USB interface
Photo(s) The board DownloadNone; the demo is distributed with ERIKA Enterprise. Reference template pic30/Applications/"Embedded World 2007, available since EEB 1.4.0 External linksNone. |