In this episode of the Ham Radio 360 Workbench, George and Jeremy continue the conversation on communicating with Microcontrollers and Single Board Computers. They deep dive on wireless ways of communicating from direct RF links to WiFi.

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West Mountain Radio Powergate - http://www.westmountainradio.com/product_info.php?products_id=pg40s

Low Loss Powergate - http://ki0bk.no-ip.com/~pwrgate/LLPG/Site/LLPG.html

KF7IJZ’s Test of the rev 1 DC Power Board - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgGJoE9QDCQ

Point to Point

  • RFM69: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12823
  • Ax.25 for RFM69/Arduino: https://github.com/kicksat/ax25
  • Adafruit RFM69 Devices: https://www.adafruit.com/?q=rfm69&
  • SparkFun RFM69 Devices: https://www.sparkfun.com/search/results?term=rfm69
  • 802.15.4 / Zigbee / DigiMesh XBee: http://www.zigbee.org
  • DigiMesh XBee Products: https://www.sparkfun.com/search/results?term=xbee
  • https://www.digikey.com/products/en/rf-if-and-rfid/rf-transceiver-modules/872?k=xbee&k=&pkeyword=xbee&pv1989=0&FV=fff40036%2Cfff803ec%2Cffe00368%2Cfffc025a&mnonly=0&newproducts=0&ColumnSort=0&page=1&quantity=0&ptm=0&fid=0&pageSize=25
  • LoRa - https://www.lora-alliance.org
  • LoRa Ham - https://github.com/travisgoodspeed/loraham
  • Adafruit LoRa devices: https://www.adafruit.com/?q=lora&
  • Argent Data Systems: https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

  • https://www.adafruit.com/?q=ble&
  • https://www.sparkfun.com/search/results?term=ble

WiFi

  • Particle Photon: https://www.particle.io/products/hardware/photon-wifi-dev-kit
  • Adafruit Photon: https://www.adafruit.com/?q=photon&
  • Arduino MKR1000: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoMKR1000
  • Adafruit WiFi Micros: https://www.adafruit.com/?q=wifi&
  • Sparkfun WiFi Micros: https://www.sparkfun.com/search/results?term=wifi

Celluar/GSM

  • Particle Electron: https://www.particle.io/products/hardware/electron-cellular-dev-kit
  • https://www.adafruit.com/products/3234
  • Adafruit FONA GSM Boards: https://www.adafruit.com/products/3234?q=gsm&
  • Sparkfun GSM Option: https://www.sparkfun.com/search/results?term=GS

If This Then That (IFTTT): https://ifttt.com

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