How big an area do you plan to cover? Distance between nodes? Check out the Zigbee stuff on the Microchip site. -----Original Message----- From: "Ale[x] Garbino" Sent: Apr 1, 2005 12:00 AM To: piclist@mit.edu Subject: [PIC]: Wireless networking? I'm trying to build a little network of microcontrollers that can report their status to a central server, in a forest. We want to make the various flag/objective stations when we play paintball automatized, and I'm looking for some ideas/recommendations. The uC need to report something simple (eg, which sides owns that station), and maybe a timer. However, it would be great to further expand it to use rfid/bluetooth technology to record when a player is actually 'holding' the station. It would transmit this data to a central server that would display the whole results. Any ideas for bluetooth/rfid/'presence' signalling? Even more importantly, should I try to use little rf transmitters, and do it myself, or woiuld it be better to use 802.11 wireless types? The picotux (recently posted, http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8386088053.html) looks great: I could just use tcp/ip for reports and command line scripts, since they run linux. But they are 100 euros a pop. I'm also concerned about how much power consumption I should expect from these things, as well as what range would I get in forests? Thanks, Alex -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist