[chbot] Wifi module

[Hadley Rich]

On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 16:03 +1200, Robin Gilks wrote:
> I mentioned to a couple of people last night about a wifi module I'd
> recently purchased from Mouser Electronics for $48
>     http://nz.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Roving-Networks/RN-171/
> 
> Full details are at the manufacturers web site at
>     http://www.rovingnetworks.com/171.php
> 
> It has an embedded SPARC 32 bit processor with full TCP/IP stack
> presenting interfaces on 10 I/O lines, 8 analog lines, UART and SPI.
> 
> Size of a postage stamp :) 

Those are neat, there's now a version in XBee compatible format too
which is really handy for boards like the FIO when you might not want to
run Zigbee. The modules have pretty good sleep power usage too.

hads
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