Category Archives: PIC

Bus Pirate Based ZigBee Sniffer

Written by Stefan on 22. März 2012 — Leave a Comment

Over at Universite de Mons, they have an interesting firmware modification for the BusPirate: it allows to sniff Zigbee (or any other 802.15.4 based) traffic. From their webpage: The Bus Pirate 802.15.4 Sniffer is a replacement firmware for the Bus Pirate that allows to capture IEEE 802.15.4 (~ ZigBee) traffic, using Microchip’s MRF24J40 transceiver. The [...]

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Pacman like Robot Game

Written by Stefan on 17. Oktober 2011 — Leave a Comment

Pretty cool pacman like robot game    

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Tutorial on Wireless Infrared Link

Written by Stefan on 28. Juli 2011 — Leave a Comment

Over at pyroelectro they have a nice little tutorial on how to link two USARTs together trough a wireless infrared link. It is amazingly simple, and yes, as usual they use PICs for that

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Tutorial on Xbee Wireless Interface

Written by Stefan on 14. Juli 2011 — Leave a Comment

On pyroelectro they have a simple tutorial showing how to interface with an Xbee wireless module. As an MCU they use a PIC, but the basics show in the tutorial are valid for other MCUs too.

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