HopeRF feedback

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Tue Jun 22 20:45:24 EDT 2010


Ron, why don't you buy one and ship it to him to help out?

We need to sell units to keep this project moving forward.

Talk is cheap. Spend your money on our collective project.

Jon

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Ron K. Jeffries <rjeffries at gmail.com> wrote:
> If wifi must be avoided for policy reasons [??]
> another short-range low-power and low cost RF
> option would be Bluetooth. it has the advantage
> of support for various periferal devices such as
> pull size keyboards, and is often supported
> on mobile phones.
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> on the 868/915 HopeRD etc front, if someone
> more technical than me were to really dig in,
> I think it may be feasible to modify the USB gadget driver
> so it talks serial to the JEELink device(which has
> the HopeRf Radio)
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> If I was God of Sharism for five minutes, I would ship
> a Nanonote ~gratis~ to Jean-Claude Wippler of Jee Labs
> email: jcw at equi4.com with NO pre-conditions, just
> a friendly note:
>  "Here is a Nanonote, at no charge.
> hope you enjoy hacking on it"
>
> his address is given here:
> http://shop.jeelabs.com/pages/about
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> Ron K. Jeffries
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> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 16:58, Werner Almesberger <werner at openmoko.org> wrote:
>> Wolfgang Spraul wrote:
>>> How about 433 MHz? Is that a band that can be certified globally?
>>
>> The 433 MHz band seems to be available everywhere. Unfortunately,
>> it's very narrow, with a width of only 1.74 MHz. The 915 MHz band
>> is a comfortable 26 MHz wide. [1]
>>
>> 868 MHz is also narrow (2 MHz) and seems to have a bunch of
>> additional frequency use restrictions, see [2].
>>
>> It also seems to be easier to find alternative chips for the 915
>> MHz band than for 433 MHz. Not sure about 868 MHz. The Microchip
>> MRF49XA would be somewhat similar, although without the Gaussian
>> filter and all the packet handling the EZRadioPRO chips have.
>> According to [3], it's also based on the original EZRadio design
>> from Integration Associates.
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>> Interesting detail: Microchip specify the same (very simple)
>> matching circuit for the 868 MHz and the 915 MHz band. [4]
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>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_band
>> [2] http://iaf-bs.de/projects/ism-433-868.en.html
>> [3] http://www.microchip.com/forums/tm.aspx?high=&m=434798&mpage=1#434798
>> [4] http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/70590b.pdf
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>> - Werner
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