Marc Nicholas wrote:
 > I've been using Sparkfun's BlueSMiRF up until now...they're relatively
 > cheap/easy for point-to-point for one of my robot platforms, but if 
you're
 > planning on deploying a small army of microbots....

You've discovered my evil plot!

No, actually it's for a farm irrigation system, where some nodes need to 
be a long way from home, nodes communicate bidirectionally with home, 
and the faraway nodes would require too much battery power to reach home 
in one hop - but it's OK and even required to sprinkle nodes around in 
between.

Point-to-point or point-to-multipoint would be fine for one-way 
communication, because home could relatively high-powered.  But so far, 
this application looks like the mesh network poster child to me.

Good to hear about BlueSMiRF, though - they look good for point-to-point 
applications.
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Timothy J. Weber
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