I’ve been playing with XBee lately and find one issue and help for a prototyper would be a simple breakout board that adapts the XBee 2mm pinout to the standard .1" breadboard spacing.
I’ve asked Maxstream to recommend a product and they couldn’t and they also reiterated that no adapter was on the drawing board from Maxstream. Here’s a mail I got back on the question:
Landon,
Thanks for your reply and suggestion. We do realize it would be helpful for some customers to have an adapter board to make our xbee fit on a standard 0.1â€
Hi, I also had this concern before. But I found there are adapters to the breadboard on ebay. I got some and used yesterday. Their design is nice and very useful for my research. Basically, you just need to put your XBee module on, and plug it to your prototyping breadboard, no soldering needed.
Yes, you are right, Bergamot, they sell them. But not exactly the way you want.
I ordered 10 from SFE about 2 month ago (and it was even cheaper, like $1.50 a piece, when you order 10, it drops to $1.35). However, they comes without the “header” and “sockets”. You have to buy seperately unless you get them somewhere else. And all added up, it is about $5 ~6 for one adapter, only for the material.
On product page link, which you gives, the “third” picture is quite misleading. I thought it would the one that i would get for $3, . Now, they put a better description on it, telling people that you get only the board.
Thanks for the link, squirrel, I will try that later.
. Now, they put a better description on it, telling people that you get only the board.