The Hands-on XBEE Lab Manual

Experiment 17

Two-Way Communications with XBee Modules

Requirements

2 XBee modules

1 XBee adapter board

1 Solderless breadboard

1 USB-to-XBee adapter

1 USB cable (type depends on MCU board chosen)

1 Microcontroller board with a serial port (see Experiment 16)

1 5-V-to-3.3-V logic-conversion circuit or module (see text)

1 3.3-V-to-5-V logic-conversion circuit or module (see text)

1 1000-ohm, 1/4-watt, 10% resistor (brown-black-red) (see text)

Terminal-emulation software such as HyperTerminal for Windows

Digi X-CTU software running on a Windows PC, with two open USB ports

Introduction

In Experiment 16 you learned how a simple computer program could use a remote XBee module to transmit information to a receiving XBee module. In this experiment ...