The latest version of the XBee Interent Gateway is available today. XIG 1.3.0 includes several groundbreaking features. First there’s a new I/O Sample mode. Starting today, an XBee radio can squirt sensor information directly into the cloud with no external microcontroller or special configuration needed. There’s also a push feature that feeds serial information down to a remote XBee from the cloud. Again, no special configuration is needed. The XIG takes care of all the complicated stuff!
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Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
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In my experience, if someone refuses to tell you up front what they charge for a product, it is extravagantly overpriced. You have to click through five pages on this piece of hardware, links promising “Buy online”, etc., until you find that the price is listed as “contact us”. It does appear that someone here is ashamed to reveal the truth! They will get me looking further into it when they exhibit the simple honesty to tell me up front how much money they want for it!
In my experience, if someone refuses to tell you up front what they charge for a product, it is extravagantly overpriced. You have to click through five pages on this piece of hardware, links promising “Buy online”, etc., until you find that the price is listed as “contact us”. It does appear that someone here is ashamed to reveal the truth! They will get me looking further into it when they exhibit the simple honesty to tell me up front how much money they want for it!