September 2007
Beginner to intermediate
432 pages
17h 48m
English
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358 MAKING THINGS TALK
New Tools
There is no such thing as the technology book that’s fully up-to-date, and this book is
no exception. New tools are coming out for networking physical devices every day. Here
are a few of the ones that excited me most that came out as I was finishing this book:
• Lantronix announced two new products: the XPort
Direct, a lower cost version of the XPort; and the
MatchPort, a lower-cost and smaller version of the
WiPort. With these two, both serial-to-Ethernet and
serial-to-WiFi connections get ever cheaper.
• The Arduino Bluetooth board is now available, allowing
both programming and communication wirelessly from
an Arduino board. An Arduino Ethernet board is in the
works as well. In addition to Arduino modules made
by the original developers, there are many Arduino
derivatives coming on the market from the community
as well.
• MaxStream announced the next generation of the
XBee radios, which will include real ZigBee mesh
networking, beyond what the examples in this book
have demonstrated.
• IOgear, Netgear, Actiontec, and many others have
released Powerline Ethernet modules. These devices
enable you to send Ethernet signals over AC powerlines
at speeds up to 200 Mbps, several orders of magnitude
faster than X10. Powerline Ethernet control modules
won’t be far behind this.
More tools will follow these. Though some specifics of the
examples you’ve ...
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