ZigBee all-in-one chip gets outing in creepy robot
If your idea of a playful robot companion is one of those tinted security camera globes on some freaky spider-like legs, then Radiopulse's showcase RoboBlock might be the oddball for you. The six-legged gold beastie has been outfitted with a ZigBee wireless chip, allowing for remote control via a modified PlayStation controller.
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Specifically, it uses the MANGO MG2400 transmitter/receiver pair, which manages to fit not only the transceiver but a high-speed 8-bit microcontroller, AES-128 encryption engine, 1.5V regulator and more all on one die. Equally impressive is the scalable 250kbps to 1Mbps data transfer rate.
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While this may seem all well and good for a remote controlled robot, I can understand you perhaps thinking "how does this affect me?" Well, my self-obsessed little munchkin, it heralds a new generation of compact, low-power wireless devices that intercommunicate securely and can be used for a variety of embedded and modular functions. Think adaptive security systems that scale instantly as you need them to, or interconnected mobile devices that form mesh networks.
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The MANGO developers kit is available now from Radiopulse.
Radiopulse [via AVING]