January 2016

Gateway Node The weekend is here and another chance to start poking around with my new RFM69HWs. Here’s my plan. I initially want to get the gateway node connected to a Raspberry PI in my basement via I2C. (I know, there’s probably an easier way, but, hey – I’m doing this for fun and to…

A week ago I got a set of HopeRF Anarduino Mini RFM69HW boards in the mail. These boards are similar to an Arduino Pro Mini but have a RFM69HW wireless module mounted on them. They’re reportedly 100% Arduino IDE compatible and run at 8Mhz. The 6-pin header interconnect is an unpopulated set of six IO…