Are there any other shields for XBee besides the one SparkFun sells? The one I have is somehow not compatible with my extender shield, and this is preventing me from doing some of the things I need to do with wireless. I am looking for a full sized shield that does not block any I/Os when it is installed.
8-Dale
Not sure what exactly you need, bu there’s others available.
Try adafruit:
http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_ … cts_id=126
or you can look at the development kits from Digi - they include USB and RS-232 development boards as well as the radios and antennas
I’m not an Arduinoian, but where does the term “shield” come from?
Is it a synonym for “daughterboard” or “add-on board”?
That's an adapter, not a shield.mitchind:
Not sure what exactly you need, bu there’s others available.Try adafruit:
I'm not interested in paying for one of Digi's development kits. :)mitchind:
or you can look at the development kits from Digi - they include USB and RS-232 development boards as well as the radios and antennas
I’m looking for a full sized Arduino shield for XBee modules that do not cover any of the Arduino’s headers. I’d like something that works with my double wide extender shield from [Liquidware. The XBee shield I have (from SparkFun) does not work with this extender shield for some reason.
8-Dale](http://www.liquidware.com)
An Arduino shield is a board that stacks on top of, or to the bottom of an Arduino or compatible USB board like the [[Duemilanove](http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=666). If you get a board in a kit, it can be built to allow shields to be stacks on top or under the main board.stevech:
I’m not an Arduinoian, but where does the term “shield” come from?
Yes, that would describe it well. ;) I don't know why the Arduino folks chose to call them shields when perfectly good and descriptive terms are already available.stevech:
Is it a synonym for “daughterboard” or “add-on board”?
8-Dale](http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=666)
Don’t know if it’s much different from Sparkfun’s ‘shield’, but Seeedstudio has one that I’m using right now - url doesn’t display properly in the forum because of the weird characters they have in it…
But you can copy/paste the whole thing rather than clicking on the underlined part.
That isn't even a shield - it does not attache above an Arduino board because it hasn't got the matching I/O pins. It's just another XBee adapter. I'll probably end up just getting one of the AdaFruit XBee adapters and connect it direct to the new WiseDuino, which I think has a socket for it.mitchind:
Don’t know if it’s much different from Sparkfun’s ‘shield’, but Seeedstudio has one that I’m using right now - url doesn’t display properly in the forum because of the weird characters they have in it…
8-Dale
I do admit I’m new at this but I assumed it was a shield because it’s labelled as: “XBee® Shield V1.1 by seeedstudio”
And it sits perfectly on top of my Arduino clone board. It’s a Seeeduino board - but it’s supposed to be Arduino compatible and is based on the Diecimila scheme, using an ATmega168 microcontroller.
Let me know how I’m mistaken.
Did Seeeduino develop this shield specifically for their boards only?
And why would it be called an adapter vs a shield?
Thanks for enlightening the newbie!
Don
So we have “shield” meaning plug-on expansion (daughter) card.
I see at Liquidware that Arduino there is an ARM7 microprocessor from NXP (LPC) rather than at Atmel AVR.
Lots of word-liberties here!
While that board does sit on top of an Arduino, it is not following the full form Arduino Shield footprint. It has only one place of contact with the Arduino board, which I would not consider stable. It also does not allow other shields to be added above it in a stack.mitchind:
I do admit I’m new at this but I assumed it was a shield because it’s labelled as: “XBee® Shield V1.1 by seeedstudio”And it sits perfectly on top of my Arduino clone board. It’s a Seeeduino board - but it’s supposed to be Arduino compatible and is based on the Diecimila scheme, using an ATmega168 microcontroller.
Let me know how I’m mistaken.
8-Dale
You must be referring to their Illuminato X Machina. That is an ARM7 board, but it is not compatible with Arduino shields. It does have what appears to be a software compatible IDE though.stevech:
I see at Liquidware that Arduino there is an ARM7 microprocessor from NXP (LPC) rather than at Atmel AVR.
8-Dale