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Published inOct 2015
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Matthijs Kooijman
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Matthijs Kooijman

Matthijs Kooijman is an independent embedded software developer who is firmly connected with the maker movement through a local fab lab and his work on the Arduino project. Since his youth, Matthijs has been interested in making things; for example, he built his first television remote control before the age of 10 (using a piece of rope to pull on the volume slider, not a solution that he would choose today). Matthijs has a firm belief in the merits of open source software and enjoys contributing to the software that he uses—both by coding and helping out other users. His work experience is broad—ranging from Web development to Linux driver hacking, from tech support to various forms of wireless networking, but almost always related to open source software in some way.
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In this section, you will look in more detail at how to connect an XBee module. By the end of this section, you will better understand the connections described in the previous chapter, and will be able to figure out how to wire up other shields and adapters too.

Serial on XBee

Interfacing with an XBee module is not terribly complicated. All XBee modules offer a serial connection. In the most basic version, this involves just three pins on the XBee board: DIN (where the XBee module receives data), DOUT (where the XBee module sends data), and GND to establish a common ground reference.

This type of connection does not have any official name, but is commonly (but inaccurately) called TTL (Transistor-to-Transistor Logic) serial and is also used on the Arduino Uno between the integrated USB-to-serial converter and the main microcontroller.

It would be more accurate to say that it is an asynchronous, single-ended serial protocol running at 3.3V. Asynchronous indicates that there is...

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Matthijs Kooijman is an independent embedded software developer who is firmly connected with the maker movement through a local fab lab and his work on the Arduino project. Since his youth, Matthijs has been interested in making things; for example, he built his first television remote control before the age of 10 (using a piece of rope to pull on the volume slider, not a solution that he would choose today). Matthijs has a firm belief in the merits of open source software and enjoys contributing to the software that he uses—both by coding and helping out other users. His work experience is broad—ranging from Web development to Linux driver hacking, from tech support to various forms of wireless networking, but almost always related to open source software in some way.
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